Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:49:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: leslie fisher Organization: cecil bird club Subject: Turkey Point Hawk Watch- MD 9/11- 9-14 Comments: To: "BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello with the latest from Turkey Point: The Turkey Point Hawk Watch is located in Cecil County, MD and is part of the Elk Neck State Park. It was originated in 1994 by Gary Griffith, founding President of the Cecil Bird Club, and Charlie Gant, also a CBC member and long time member of Hawk Mountain, dating back to the days of Maurice Broun. The hawk watch is located in a meadow just before the southern point of the Elk Neck Peninsula. The point, which faces south, is at the head waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and overlooks the North East and Elk Rivers. Our best annual count came last year with 7,017 raptors and a strictly volunteer effort. For complete site information, direction, seasonal updates and past seasons data, visit www.udel.edu/cecilbirds 9/11 4 hrs of observation by the eagle meister himself, Charlie Gant , 0-5 SE winds brought : Osprey-1 Sharp-shinned Hawk- 15 9/12 Not a stellar count day again, 3.5 hrs, SE 0-5 with L. Fisher, H. Watson, D. Quin: TV-5 OS-5 SS-11 ML-1 9/13 Another slow day report from a disappointed H. Watson, 4 hrs and shifted winds to NW: SS-2 BW-1 OS-2 BE-3 9/14 Things are looking up, best count day of season and a 3 Falcon Day, Merlin, Kestrel and first PEREGRINE of season flying south high and very fast, disappeared in seconds. 6.2 hrs observation, winds 0-5 from South. Towards the late afternoon with mostly blue sky, counting became tough with birds very high. Counters S. Crabtree, A. Gordon and L. Fisher TV-14 OS-7 BE-6 NH-1 CH-9 SS-68 BW-45 ( trickling through here and there, high and flying S/SE, many were adult birds. RS-1 ( first of season ) RT-1 AK-5 ML-2 PF-1 ( first of season ) UU-7 Total= 159 Season= 406 ( start 9/2 ) ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================