As a segment of the Refuge Week Events at Eastern Neck, the Kent County Bird
Club held a Hawk Watch at the Narrows Bridge on Saturday, October 23 (in
essence, this was a Big Sit Redux, except that we could wander outside the
circle)

We were on location from 10:00 AM until 2:30 pm. The weather was clear and
breezy, with no clouds in the AM, building to a moderate number of clouds by
afternoon.

We had a 9 species of migratory diurnal raptors, and a total species count
of 43.

Raptor Numbers:

Black Vulture - 13
Turkey Vulture - 74
Osprey - 2
Bald Eagle
   Immature - 6
   Adult - 10
Northern Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 17
Cooper's Hawk - 6
Red-shouldered Hawk - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 16
Unidentified Raptor - 3

Additional Species seen during the Hawk Watch:

Snow Goose
Canada Goose
CACKLING GOOSE - one in a flock of Canadas
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
European Starling
American Pipit
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch



Peter Mann, DVM, DACVP
Manager, EPL NorthEast
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Galena, MD 21635
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