[va-bird] College Creek Hawkwatch Big Day

Tom Armour, Bill Williams and I enjoyed a second consecutive day of nice  
weather and so did the vultures and hawks. Today, February 28th, the northeast  
wind changed over to southeast, which is generally good for flights at the  
site and we ended up with 88 birds, the best February day in the 11 years of 
the  
count. There were 2 Black Vultures, 78 Turkey Vultures, 3 Ospreys, a Bald  
Eagle (we see lots of Bald Eagles every day over the river, but we only  count 
the ones that seem to be obviously migrating), a Cooper's Hawk and 3  
Red-tailed Hawks.
 
The February monthly total of 199 is second only to the 204 in 1998.  Last 
year there were 73 in February. We recorded 10 species of hawks and  vultures 
in 
February, a very good start to the season.
 
Many of you already know, but this data and data from many other  hawkwatches 
acrosss Canada, the U.S. and Mexico is entered into the  Hawkwatch.org 
website for data storage and sharing.
 
Today, there were at least 10 Tree Swallows, dozens of waterfowl, hundreds  
of gulls and thousands of blackbirds pushing northward throughout the  morning.
 
Brian Taber
 
College Creek Hawkwatch is a program of Coastal Virginia Wildlife  
Observatory and is located on the James River just east of Williamsburg.
 
 
 
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