SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 10, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 15 123 123 Osprey 11 94 94 Bald Eagle 1 29 29 Northern Harrier 11 119 119 Sharp-shinned Hawk 213 499 499 Cooper's Hawk 4 25 25 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 1196 1538 1538 Red-tailed Hawk 4 93 93 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 36 208 208 Merlin 4 7 7 Peregrine Falcon 2 3 3 Unknown 0 0 0 Total: 1497 2739 2739 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 10 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Tim Smart Visitors: Pete Przybylski Gloria Harkness Ron Harkness Pat Mulawa Weather: Today brought another clear sunny day and little or no cloud cover. Winds were light to moderate southeast. Raptor Observations: The flight built steadily during the morning, remaining so through the afternoon and into early evening. Much of the movement was to the north, quite predictably given the wind direction but there were plenty of birds overhead as well. This was the first day with well-organized Broad-wing kettles ranging in size from a couple dozen to a couple hundred birds. Also highlighting the day was a decent early season showing of falcons, particularly one very cooperative Peregrine that flew low over the onlookers at the watch. Non-raptor Observations: Also of note today was what has become an annual occurrence of an Olive-sided Flycatcher on the snag west of the count area just off the boaters’ parking lot. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan (common_raven@hotmail.com) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/