Bradbury Mountain State ParkPownal, Maine, USA
| Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 26, 2022 |
| Species | Day's Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Black Vulture | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 285 | 470 |
| Osprey | 18 | 222 | 223 |
| Bald Eagle | 0 | 20 | 80 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 58 | 73 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 32 | 436 | 466 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 4 | 26 | 43 |
| Northern Goshawk | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 0 | 26 | 120 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 236 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 2 | 31 | 132 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Eagle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| American Kestrel | 4 | 230 | 240 |
| Merlin | 1 | 28 | 32 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Unknown Accipiter | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Unknown Falcon | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Raptor | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Total: | 299 | 2578 | 3103 |
| Observation start time: | 08:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 15:15:00 |
| Total observation time: | 7.25 hours |
| Official Counter | Derek Lovitch, Jeannette Lovitch |
| Observers: | Jeannette Lovitch, Jim Pinfold, Rich Fortin |
Visitors:Not a lot of people out and about at Bradbury today. 3 people visited us at the Hawkwatch. Those who did enjoyed seeing raptors with the unaided eye.
Weather:The weather today was more amenable than we had expected. Winds were out of the south almost all day ahead of a very slow-moving cold front. Cloud cover held tight with just a few peeks of sun in the middle of the day. Some showers and drizzle moved through in short bouts, but didn't last long, until 3:50 EDT when Derek closed down the count. A brief improvement in visibility officially reopened the count 10 minutes later, until steadier rain finally shut down the count for good at 4:10 EDT.
Raptor Observations:The first two hours were pretty empty of birds. Then, all of sudden, Broad-winged Hawks started popping up. For the next 4 hours we were scanning the skies for distant kettles, while birds were also moving west to east low over the summit - some of the best looks at hawks we have had in a while. It was a fun day once hawks started moving. Very few birds required a scope to spot and identify today, for a most-welcome change.
Non-raptor Observations:30 species were seen or heard from the summit today. Not a lot were marked down as migrants, but species that were included: 23 Tree Swallows, 11 Yellow-rumped Warblers (including a total of 9 in the afternoon still migrating northward high overhead), 4 Mallards, 3 Canada Geese, 1 Double-crested Cormorant, 1 Belted Kingfisher, and 1 Palm Warbler.
Predictions:An area of low pressure is forecast to move up along the cold front tonight, bringing heavy rain overnight. Tomorrow is unlikely to be a total washout, but it might be one of those annoying days with on-again, off-again rain, and on-again, off-again hawkwatching. Well, hopefully some hawkwatching...light northwesterly winds are much less favorable to producing a flight on overcast skies than today's southerly winds. But we didn't expect nearly 300 birds today, either, so at this point, why do we even bother with this section? ;) Just go hawkwatching!
Report submitted by Jeannette Lovitch (
freeportwildbird@yahoo.com)
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