Backyard Hawkwatch
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:36:34 -0400
Backyard Hawkwatch - northeast Baltimore City
-White Ave. between Belair Rd. and Walther Ave.
Bad day in the morning with rain until it clear up at 3:30pm and
clear sky with alot of sun shows up at 4:30pm, at 5:14pm an first big
kettle show up with 5 more kettles through 5:20pm, a total of 3201 BWs.
Gray cloud form up again at 5:35pm. More Blue Jays moving in with 8
Monarch too. Also flew by was a flock of 15 sparrow sp.
Total for 9/25
Broad-winged Hawk - 3201
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Total for 1998 (Aug. 23-Sept. 25) 1997
Turkey Vulture - 16 362
Black Vulture - 2 13
Golden Eagle - 0 3
Bald Eagle - 10* 9
N. Harrier - 15 25
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 29 106
Cooper's Hawk - 17 82
N. Goshawk - 0 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 5 51
Broad-winged Hawk - 11,765* best year for BWs 4324
Red-tailed Hawk - 10 339
Rough-legged Hawk - 0 13
Osprey - 36* 20
Am. Kestrel - 26* 23
Merlin - 6 7
Peregrine Falcon - 1 2
Swainson's Hawk - 1 (9/16) n/a
Unidentified Raptors - 1 7
Total: 11,940* 5338
Kevin Graff
Baltimore, MD
ggraff@erols.com