Kiptopeke State Park
Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 27, 2005
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
Black Vulture 42 281 486
Turkey Vulture 241 924 970
Osprey 7 886 2697
Bald Eagle 6 203 292
Northern Harrier 16 246 527
Sharp-shinned Hawk 203 3902 5199
Cooper's Hawk 77 1282 1879
Northern Goshawk 0 2 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 36 44 46
Broad-winged Hawk 5 317 956
Red-tailed Hawk 38 221 291
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 1 3
American Kestrel 25 1414 5261
Merlin 2 770 1493
Peregrine Falcon 5 485 702
Unknown 0 13 63
Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2
Total: 703 10992 20869
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Observation start time: 06:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 10 hours
Official Counter: Sam Stuart
Observers:
Visitors:
Bill and Peaches, Jon Dunn, Jonathan Alderfer
Weather:
partly cloudy for most of day. Starting off clam with a light North breeze
turning to a Northwest.
Raptor Observations:
Very high flight from the get-go. First movement of Red-shoulders is right
on schedual!
Non-raptor Observations:
Big Robin movement
========================================================================
Report submitted by Zachary N. Smith (zsgavilan@xxxxxxxxxxx)
You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email
to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe, send email to
va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.