What a day!
>
> Bradbury Mountain State Park
> Pownal, Maine, USA
> Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 03, 2015
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>
> Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
> ------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
> Black Vulture 0 0 0
> Turkey Vulture 97 133 343
> Osprey 2 3 3
> Bald Eagle 1 3 36
> Northern Harrier 12 18 19
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 39 46 54
> Cooper's Hawk 8 14 32
> Northern Goshawk 0 0 1
> Red-shouldered Hawk 23 40 67
> Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0
> Red-tailed Hawk 49 69 138
> Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 3
> Golden Eagle 0 1 1
> American Kestrel 16 17 18
> Merlin 1 6 8
> Peregrine Falcon 0 1 2
> Unknown Accipiter 3 5 6
> Unknown Buteo 3 6 7
> Unknown Falcon 0 1 1
> Unknown Eagle 0 0 1
> Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
>
> Total: 254 363 740
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>
> Observation start time: 07:45:00
> Observation end time: 16:00:00
> Total observation time: 8.25 hours
>
> Official Counter: Andrew Wolfgang
>
> Observers: Dave Gulick, Derek Lovitch, Jeannette Lovitch, Leon Mooney,
> Noah Gibb, Zane Baker
>
> Visitors:
> 20. Thanks to all the visitors and those who counted raptors with us today
> at Bradbury Mountain.
>
>
> Weather:
> A great day for spring hawk watching, and temperatures were above average
> for a change! Today periods of sun were mixed with periods of overcast
> skies. Winds from the southwest caused many migrants to take to the skies.
>
> Raptor Observations:
> The 2015 season had a new high count today for the year with 254 migrants.
> Ten species were recorded with large groups of Turkey Vultures moving in
> the morning. A new single day record was set for Turkey Vultures. The newly
> set record was 97 migrant Turkey Vultures. These vultures were in groups as
> large as 38. Smaller groups of Sharp-shinned Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks,
> and Red-tailed Hawks came by in the afternoon. Several Northern Harriers
> and American Kestrels came through in the late afternoon. Several local
> Bald Eagles were spotted as well.
>
> Non-raptor Observations:
> 42 species were observed from the summit today. Including FOY Belted
> Kingfisher, Eastern Phoebe, Hooded Merganser, Fox Sparrow, Northern
> Flicker, Chipping Sparrow; We also had 33 Bohemian Waxwings stop at the
> count site today.
> There were many non-raptor migrants today.
> American Robin 1536
> Common Grackle 536
> Canada Goose 207
> Blackbird sp. 190
> Red-winged Blackbird 114
> European Starling 35
> American Crow 27
> Tree Swallow 18
> Common Merganser 14
> American Black Duck 14
> Brown-headed Cowbird 10
> Great Blue Heron 9
> Killdeer 6
> Duck sp. 9
> Bohemian Waxwing 4
> American Goldfinch 2
> Pine Siskin 2
> Mallard 2
> Common Redpoll 1
> Cormorant sp. 1
>
>
> Predictions:
> Rain is probable early tomorrow. After the rain clears, there may be a
> period before strong northwest winds begin to gust at 20-30 mph. Once
> strong NW winds begin chances of seeing migrants will be greatly decreased.
> The count will continue tomorrow at times when conditions are improved to a
> point when raptors could be flying. If there is a break between rain and
> high winds we will be counting birds!
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> Report submitted by Jeannette Lovitch (freeportwildbird@yahoo.com)
> Bradbury Mountain State Park information may be found at:
> www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com/hawkwatch.asp
>
>
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