[MDOsprey] Turkey Point Summary 9/21 -- 9/28
leslie fisher (gonbrdn@dol.net)
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 14:37:31 -0400
Hi All:
Below are stats from Turkey Point 9/21-9/28 courtesy of compiler Ron
Kelczewski, e-mail listed above should anyone find themselves conducting
the count. For ongoing weekly summaries, see www.udel.edu/cecilbirds ,
courtesy of Marcia Whitmyre. Thursdays and Fridays continue to be our
problem days.
As always, SHARP-SHINS dominated the count, at an impressive 468 birds.
COOPS tallied up at 40. Also a good week for AMERICAN KESTREL, at 51.
PEREGRINE FALCON made a good showing at 10 for the week and MERLIN at
3. OSPREY at 28, BALD EAGLE- 37. Peak NORTHERN HARRIER is yet to
come, 5 for the week. RED-TAIL beginning to move- 27 tallied. BLACK
VULTURE- 2, TURKEY VULTURE-47. HOWEVER, our big news for this week was
the major BROADWING flight on 9/26, comprising the majority of the 1538
birds tallied for the week. Total 2281 ( including some UA / UR )
A good flight underway when I left the hawk watch at ll:30 today ( Sun);
average daily counts lately ( barring 9/26 ) have been between 100-150
birds per day. Russ Kovach and Norm Friedland had a PEREGRINE in scope
enjoying a meal. Still not a major buteo morning where up to 400 have
been tallied in a single day during seasons past but shouldn`t be long
now.
A great crowd out there this morning, including naturalist Bill
Bridgeland from Baltimore teaching a raptor class for Bio-trek, and
folks from Montgomery, Harford and Cecil Co, also New Jersey and
Delaware. No longer the mornings of solitude at Turkey Point. It`s
great to have the company and the more eyes to the sky the better.
Leslie Fisher
Cecil Co.