Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:32:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Leslie Fisher Subject: Turkey Point- 11/14- 11/19 ( another golden )seasonal Comments: To: Roland Ray Roth , Jason Sodergren , elk neck MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Turkey Point Hawk Watch is located in Cecil County Maryland, at the tip of the Elk Neck Peninsula, in the Elk Neck State Park. The watch began in 1995, and the site is manned by volunteers from the Cecil Bird Club and other affiliated Clubs in the area. Generally counters are only present from ~ 9AM - 12 PM. Last year we had complete coverage, but it seems we may not have such good fortune this year. ( Acutally, we have only missed a few days thus far, ) For more complete site information, including volunteering at the site, view www.udel.edu/cecilbirds Scrambling here to catch up with some data here, the best news has been our second Golden Eagle of the season observed on 11/18 by Charlie Gant and Rick Lee. The last falcon recorded was on 11/14, a Merlin that obligingly perched to eat some prey. There are still some Red-shouldered Hawks coming through. Rain, of course, has been an issue. We should have counters out through the last week in November. On ll/14 a total of 40 tallied on SW winds, 2/12 hrs in AM by Pat Valdata: SS-7, CH-2, ML-1, RS-12, RT-3, AK-1, TV-13, UA-1 (40) Bill Collins suffered a poor day on the 15th, counting only 7 during his 4 hr stay: SS-4, BE-1, RS-1, RT-1 The weekend, 16th/17th, was a washout. Charlie Gant and Rick Lee had a decent morning on the 18th for a few hours, tallying another immature GOLDEN EAGLE, as well as: BV-1, TV-12, BE-5, SS-8, RS-16, RT-15 ( 58) West wind This morning the 19th was poor again with approaching rain and East winds with the Fishers and the hawk watch dogs Bunkie and Billie counting: RT-7, TV-14, SS-3, (24) between 1045 and 1230. SEASONAL We are gasping our way towards the 4,000 mark, well below last years count of ~5,100 for the same time of year. Total: 3,590 in 236 count hours: BV-41 TV-554 OS-111 BE-172 NH-32 SS-1477 CH-199 NG-4 RS-243 BW-103 RT-476 GE-2 AK-71 ML-25 PG-18 UR- 63 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================