Backyard Hawkwatch - northeast Baltimore City - Fall 1998 -White Ave. between Belair Rd. and Walther Ave. An impressive number of Broad-winged Hawks are moving pretty fast. A total of 2407 were counted including a sinlge kettle of 777. Many more will be coming in the next few days because I recieve a e-mail from BIRDHAWK that 6,000 Broad-winged Hawks seen along eastern Massachusetts today as of 3:00pm and are moving south-southwest, the BIRDHAWK alert me and others along eastern Pennsylvania, northwest NJ and Backyard Hawkwatch (that's me) to keep a lookout in the next 3 to 5 days. I hope some of you who volunteer at Turkey Point and other hawkwatch location have a chance see a good number of BWs this week. Total for 9/13 Broad-winged Hawk - 2407 a new record for single day* Osprey - 14 a new record for single day* Am. Kestrel - 4 Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult and 3 imm.) Merlin - 3 Turkey Vulture - 2 Cooper's Hawk - 1 N. Harrier - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Total for 1998 (Aug. 23-Sept. 13) 1997 Turkey Vulture - 10 362 Black Vulture - 0 13 Golden Eagle - 0 3 Bald Eagle - 8 9 N. Harrier - 2 25 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 10 106 Cooper's Hawk - 11 82 N. Goshawk - 0 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 51 Broad-winged Hawk - 3841 4324 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 339 Rough-legged Hawk - 0 13 Osprey - 22 new record* 20 Am. Kestrel - 13 23 Merlin - 4 7 Peregrine Falcon - 0 2 Unidentified Raptors - 0 7 Total: 3927 5338 Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com