Thanks for posting your wonderful hawk watch numbers from Thursday. Both the Fort Smallwood and Cromwell Valley watch sites had very little to report. Sue Ricciardi mentions an east wind pushing birds inland which seems to be the case. Also, your Windsor Mill flight began to pick up at about the time Ft. Smallwood & Cromwell were calling it a day. In the past I have seen numbers of BW hawks as late as 7:15 PM in April!
Jim Meyers
Cromwell Valley Park HawkWatch
On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Frode Jacobsen wrote:
> Hi All,
> After a unsuccessful search for the Orange-crowned Warblers at South West Area Park this morning (got a FOY Ovenbird as consolation prize!), I spent the late morning and afternoon doing a hawk watch from our deck here in Parkview Trail, Windsor Mill. It was pretty slow going mid-day, but around 2:30PM it started revving up and several large kettles of Vultures, Ospreys, Eagles, Harriers, Hawks, and Falcons came up the Patapsco Valley to our west and turned NE past our house towards Windsor Mill/Randallstown. At 3:52PM, a adult-like Golden Eagle appeared over the Patapsco Valley and soared leisurely north while constantly being harassed by a group of Sharp-shinned Hawks! The flight finally came to a screeching halt around 5PM, at which point I had tallied 53 species and 285 raptors! Best non-raptor birds were Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a female Purple Finch.
>
> Raptor count:
>
> 40 Black Vulture
> 68 Turkey Vulture
> 21 Osprey
> 1 Golden Eagle
> 13 Northern Harrier
> 29 Sharp-shinned Hawk
> 7 Cooper's Hawk
> 6 Bald Eagle
> 10 Red-shouldered Hawk
> 53 Broad-winged Hawk
> 10 Red-tailed Hawk
> 13 American Kestrel
> 14 Merlin
>
> Good Birding!
>
> Frode Jacobsen
> Windsor Mill, MD 21244
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