FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] PINE MT. MIGRATION--WHITESBURG, KY.

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This report is for September 12-16, 2003.  Raptors were very slow until the 
last day, when small kettles & groups started coming over after 4:00 p.m.  
Totals for the five days were as follows:
Bald Eagles             2
Red-Tailed Hawks        2
Ospreys                   1
Northern Harrier            1
Sharp-shinned Hawk      1
Red-shouldered Hawk    1
American kestral            2
Unidentified Falcons       2
Unidentified Raptors        5
Broad Wings                211

Warbler activity was good, 
especially on the 15th, when we had 11 species, as follows:

Oven Bird
Pine
American Redstart
Hooded
Black-throated green
Magnolia
Nashville
Black & White
Tennessee
Chesnut-Sided
Blackburnian

Combining these with the other usual suspects gave us a total of 46 species.  


It appears the next few days will be the peak of the migration, and some of 
us will be going back before & during the coming weekend.  We have seen as many 
as 600-700 per hr and 1200-1300 per day in previous yrs.  Join us if you 
desire to see a lot of  raptors!! 

One other observation....On the afternoon of the 15th we had lots of 
activity, including the 2 eagles.  We didn't actually see the contact, but 
raptors 
stooping & buzzing around the mountain top produced a trio of large feathers 
drifting by the site.  Would love to have identified them, but we were unable 
to 
retrieve them.

Steve Sweeney
Boyd County


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