Mendota Fire Tower
Mendota, VA, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 13, 2015
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 0
Osprey 2 3 3
Bald Eagle 0 0 0
Northern Harrier 0 0 0
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 0 0
Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 19 22 22
Red-tailed Hawk 0 0 0
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 2 2 2
Merlin 0 0 0
Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 1 1 1
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Total: 25 29 29
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 6 hours
Official Counter: Mike Sanders
Observers: Gary Cooper, George Larkin
Weather:
Cool morning and day in general, cloud cover dominated the scene for most
of the day. Very windy this morning tapering off this afternoon. Wind was
out if the North West.
Raptor Observations:
We had lots of local birds hanging out including Red-tailed Hawks,
Sharp-shinned Hawks
Non-raptor Observations:
We also had 3 Red Headed Woodpeckers fly by the tower. Huge numbers of what
appeared to be migrating Tree Swallows, we would look out over the valley
and see 40-60 birds slowly moving south. Some of them came over the tower
and we were able to identify them. I would say we had 200-300 per hour
flying by. Warblers were hard to come by except in the air, they were not
stopping to fuel up, we did not have a single feeder flock along the ridge.
Also a group of Double-crested Cormorants were seen migrating through.
Thanks to George Larkins and Gary Cooper for helping me today. We had some
good birds despite the low numbers.
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Report submitted by John D Whinery (Fall.Branch.Tn.Bird@xxxxxxxxx)
