Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:47:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: leslie fisher Organization: cecil bird club Subject: Turkey Point- MD- 10/20- 1st Goshhawk of season 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: There was no count on 10/18-rain, have no report from 10/19 yet, but apparently numbers were not good. A call just in from Don Bayard, reporting a good flight at Turkey Point on 10/20 , including 1st GOSHAWK of the season, well observed by Don, wife Judy and Charlie Gant as it passed directly overhead 2x. There was also a good flight of Red-shouldered hawks, although the action did not begin until 10:45, with only 10 birds between then and 9 AM. Totals as follows, from 9 M - 1 PM: Black V- 5 Turkey V.- 38 BAld EAgle- 3 Sharpies- 34 Coops- 3 GOSHAWK- 1 Red-shouldered- 68 (*** high count for season ) Red-tail- 8 Leslie Fisher Watch Coordinator 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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================