Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:27:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: gonbrdn Subject: Turkey Point- MD- 11/10, 11/11 ( looking up!! ) 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: On 11/10, another fair to middling report from Rick Lee, WNW winds, 3 hours: T. Vulture- 20 B. Vulture- 10 Bald EAgle- 8 Sharpie- 3 Coops- 2 Red-tailed- 5 On 11/11, finally the type of flight we would expect for the time of year and weather conditions. Rick and Candi Lee , Charlie Gant and visitors, between 9 and 12:30, stiff N winds tallied a very good flight of 110 raptors: TV- 16 BV- 4 Bald Eagle- 1 PEREGRINE- 2 MERLIN- 2 Sharpie- 20 Coops- 7 Red-tailed- 53** high count morning for season Red-shouldered- 4 Northern Harrier- 1 I suspect ( HOPE ) that next few days will be good as well. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================