Fort Smallwood Park
Pasadena, Maryland, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 09, 2013
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
Black Vulture 23 139 398
Turkey Vulture 252 1669 5404
Osprey 22 191 356
Bald Eagle 1 10 40
Northern Harrier 4 35 43
Sharp-shinned Hawk 49 328 392
Cooper's Hawk 7 109 172
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 9 69 244
Broad-winged Hawk 12 12 12
Red-tailed Hawk 3 75 153
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 1
American Kestrel 23 198 248
Merlin 3 15 23
Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1
Unknown Accipiter 0 5 8
Unknown Buteo 1 2 6
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 8
Total: 410 2858 7509
Observation start time: 7:45 am
Observation end time: 5:00 pm�� Daylight Savings Time
Total observation time: 9.25 hours
Official Counter Bob Rineer, Sue Ricciardi
Observers: Bill Hubick, Bob Rineer, Dan Haas, Hal Wierenga, Harry Armistead, Liz Armistead, Lynn Davidson, Mary Jane McMillan, Nancy Magnusson, Ralph Geuder, Steve Whitcomb, Sue Ricciardi
Weather:
Partly to mostly cloudy becoming mostly sunny near the end of the day; 52 to a toasty 84 degrees; fair visibility with some haze; winds westerly, starting out southwesterly and ending northwesterly
Raptor Observations:
13 species; first Broadwings of the season; flight picked up when the winds shifted to the northwest; one Peregrine Falcon stooped on another; Osprey/Bald Eagle confrontation; local Ospreys have been gathering nesting material
Non-raptor Observations:
First of the season: Little Blue Heron (1), Black-crowned Night-Heron (1), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2), hummingbird sp. Also a few butterflies and dragonflies
Complete ebird list:� http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13694015
Report submitted by Sue Ricciardi ( <susiericc...> )
Fort Smallwood Park information may be found at: http://www.mdbirds.org/sites/mdsites/hawks/hawkwatch.html
Site Description
Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay at the
mouth of the Patapsco River, 11 miles south of Baltimore, MD. Best winds are
from the southwest. The Park is closed to visitors on Wednesdays.
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