Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:10:29 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Backyard Hawk Watch 9/29/01 - SANDHILL CRANE!!! In-Reply-To: <001401c148ca$9592bce0$60b34e0c@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, This is only part time hawk watch this season. This is the third time i counted hawks this month. The reason is because The TV crew from MPT "Outdoor Maryland is filming me about hawkwatching in my backyard. Today we had about 319 out of possible 500 hawks today. I was focus on mostly geese flight all day, miss a lot of hawks. At 10:10am, an imm. SANDHILL CRANE was flying with 4 Canada Geese headed SE, so anyone who live in Talbot County might want to keep an eye out for this bird. Maybe he might go to Tarbutton Mill Rd where we all saw one there last fall. Busy day for migrants, over 11,000 birds including 8,000+ geese passing over between 9am and 7pm (10 hours). 10 hours on the field without a break, longest I ever done. Had dinner at 7:30pm. Migrants: 6 Double-crested Cormorant 10 Great Blue Heron 8,343 Canada Goose 9 Green-winged Teal 10 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 6 Northern Harrier 60 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper's Hawk 8 Red-shouldered Hawk 148 Broad-winged Hawk 18 Red-tailed Hawk 20 Osprey 38 American Kestrel 1 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 56 Chimney Swift 13 Tree Swallow 1,185 Blue Jay 17 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 unid. vireo sp. (flyby over ridge) 1 Nashville Warbler - on maple tree in yard 2 Northern Parula 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 49 unid warbler sp. (flyby over ridge) 3 "Slate-colored" Junco 8 Bobolink 10 Red-winged Blackbird 8 American Goldfinch Geese flight by hour: 9-10 667 in 23 flocks, largest flock: 103 10-11 994 in 48 flocks, largest flock: 82 11-12 882 in 35 flocks, largest flock: 71 12-1 940 in 38 flocks, largest flock: 58 1-2 2,489 in 96 flocks, largest flock: 70 2-3 935 in 31 flocks, largest flock: 115 3-4 948 in 40 flocks, largest flock: 69 4-5 321 in 19 flocks, largest flock: 58 5-6 115 in 9 flocks, largest flock: 43 6-7 42 in 4 flocks, largest flock: 21 There might be more geese flight tomorrow as we get more heavy cloud cover (geese loves cloud cover). Will count more when I get back from wildlife survey at Horsehead from 8am-12pm on Sunday. This is a little late for report. It took me two hours to addd up all the geese numbers from 8 pm to 10pm, my sister was on internet until 10:45pm. It is now 11:07pm. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================