Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:28:39 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Leslie Fisher Subject: Turkey Point- 11/3, 4 and 5- Cecil Co, MD Comments: To: birdhawk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Turkey Point Hawk Watch is located on the Elk Neck Peninsula in Cecil County, MD, and operates with all volunteer counters 7 morning a week. The count will continue until Nov. 30th, or until the counters wear out, whichever happens first. Catching up on some reports here, 11/3, Candi Lee counted for 2 and 1/4 hours from 11 AM on when the fog and drizzle finally cleared, grand total of 10: TV-3 SS-5 RS-1 RT-1 Slightly better luck on 11/4 in the 4 and 3/4 hours counted by Marcia Whitmrye and gang, SSE winds and 53 raptors: TV-7 BE-1 NH-1 SS-10 RS-15 RT-25 UB-1 Other migrants included 1 imm. REDHEADED WOODPECKER, 1 male BALTIMORE ORIOLE, CEDAR WAXWING, PINE SISKIN, PURPLE FINCH AND YELLOWBELLIED SAPSUCKER Totals as of noon on 11/5, counter still present for the afternoon, Rick Lee had a 100+ count with very strong gusty winds, will report days total when data available. It seems that a few falcons continue to trickle through: BV-9 TV-5 BE-3 SS-20 CH-2 RS-20 RT-45 ML-1 PG-1 Leslie Fisher Watch Coordinator ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================