Nov 8th - 391 Birds, 11 Species, 12 Eagles!!!

391 Birds - Our highest single-day count ever for November!
65 Turkey Vultures - Our highest single-day count ever for November!
71 Turkey Vultures - Our highest monthly count ever for November!
9 Bald Eagles - Our highest single-day count ever for November!
9 Bald Eagles - Our highest monthly count ever for November!
289 Red-tailed Hawks - Our 2nd highest single-day count ever! (missed our record by only 39 birds)

Around 1:00pm we had 2 Bald Eagles, 1 dark morph Rough-legged Hawk, 1 Red-shouldered Hawk and 70-80 Red-tailed Hawks all circling over the park against the blue sky.  It was a spectacular sight!

Ha, not a bad day really!

Today:
Turkey Vulture - 65
Bald Eagle - 9
Northern Harrier - 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 5
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 289
Rough-legged Hawk - 3
Golden Eagle - 3
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2
Unidentified Buteo - 5
Total - 391

Eagle Time (EST):
09:40am - BE
11:11am - BE
11:14am - GE
11:14am - BE
11:30am - GE x2
11:41am - BE
11:56am - BE
12:58pm - BE
01:04pm - BE
01:25pm - BE
02:40pm - BE

To Date:
Turkey Vulture - 2445
Osprey - 37
Bald Eagle - 81
Northern Harrier - 100
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 633
Cooper's Hawk - 14
Northern Goshawk - 3
Red-shouldered Hawk - 17
Broad-winged Hawk - 70
Red-tailed Hawk - 388
Rough-legged Hawk - 6
Golden Eagle - 4
American Kestrel - 197
Merlin - 19
Peregrine Falcon - 20
Unidentified Accipiter - 0
Unidentified Buteo - 31
Unidentified Eagle - 3
Unidentified Falcon - 6
Unidentified Raptor - 8
Total - 4082

 Bald Eagle (Elias)

Peregrine Falcon (Mike)

Red-tailed Hawk (Mike)

Red-tailed Hawk (Mike)

Red-tailed Hawk (Arvo)

Cooper's Hawk (Mike)

Bald Eagle (Mike)

Bald Eagle (Mike)

Rough-legged Hawk (Mike)

Red-tailed Hawk (Mike)

Bald Eagle (Arvo)

Bald Eagle (Mike)

Turkey Vulture (Mike)

 Turkey Vulture (Arvo)

 Turkey Vulture (Arvo)

Red-shouldered Hawk (Mike)

 Red-tailed Hawk (Mike)

Other Birds:
Red-tailed Hawk (local), Merlin (local) and Sandhill Crane

Sandhill Cranes (Kris)

Hawkwatchers:
Kris, Theresa, Elias, Mike, Allison, Walter, Julie, Arvo, Naish, Phil, Bruce, Lynn, Betty, Cori and Hugh.  Wow, that might be a single-day record for November as well!!!  Thankyou everybody for a spectacular day at the park!

USAF C-17 Globemaster (Elias)

Weather Prediction:
Watch Monday, Tuesday and maybe even Wednesday of next week.  Keep your fingers crossed.

Walter