DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 26, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 478 51647 52393 Osprey 0 3 46 Bald Eagle 0 42 90 Northern Harrier 4 57 132 Sharp-shinned Hawk 28 1509 3081 Cooper's Hawk 4 168 255 Northern Goshawk 0 14 14 Red-shouldered Hawk 10 321 322 Broad-winged Hawk 0 82 20016 Red-tailed Hawk 59 1113 1229 Rough-legged Hawk 0 3 3 Golden Eagle 1 45 45 American Kestrel 4 128 433 Merlin 0 14 36 Peregrine Falcon 0 18 32 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 12 12 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 3 4 Total: 588 55179 78144 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 7.5 hours Official Counter: Seth Cutright Observers: Greg Norwood, Patrick Mulawa, Rodney Laura Weather: Weather for today was very clear visibility, and it started out cloudy. It went from around 95% cloudy down to 10% cloudy late in the day. The wind was East-South-East, and very light all day. Raptor Observations: I total of 588 raptors were counted today. 478 were Turkey Vultures. 1 Golden Eagle did go over in the early afternoon. Not much else but kind of nice after the Southwest winds of the past few days and rain. Non-raptor Observations: The first few flocks of Tundra Swans went over today. Several Thousand American Crows went over today. One single Dunlin also went over. 28 Tundra Swans were counted in all, within 3 different flocks. Predictions: Tuesday look to have some rain very early, like around 5:00am, then again at around 1:00pm. It should be warm again, so birds might use that to move. However they said that the winds should be light and from the Southwest. If so it could be slow again. I think it should be about the same as today, maybe another Golden Eagle, but could take a few hours until the warmer part of the day. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Seth Cutright (seth.cutright@gmail.com) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/