Kiptopeke Hawkwatch
Tip of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 24, 2011
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 0
Osprey 0 22 2016
Bald Eagle 4 30 299
Northern Harrier 2 73 529
Sharp-shinned Hawk 12 415 9814
Cooper's Hawk 3 133 2043
Northern Goshawk 0 2 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 6 34 54
Broad-winged Hawk 0 1 1338
Red-tailed Hawk 28 166 384
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 5 6
American Kestrel 0 34 4090
Merlin 0 16 1416
Peregrine Falcon 0 15 769
Unknown Accipiter 0 2 20
Unknown Buteo 0 0 3
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 2 22
Unknown Raptor 0 3 51
Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2
Total: 55 954 22858
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 7 hours
Official Counter: Kyle Wright
Observers:
Weather:
Clear skies with temperatures between 10.3c and 12.7c. Somewhat variable
winds, but mostly with a north-ish bent.
Raptor Observations:
More Buteos than Accipiters and Falcons... finally some semblance to a
November hawk flight!
Non-raptor Observations:
Three Monarch Flutter-bys. Fourteen Loons of unidentified species (sorry,
not working that hard today), thirty one Tundra Swans. At least four Rusty
Blackbirds amidst thousands of other icterids. Also, a single (late?)
Yellow Palm Warbler.
Predictions:
Light southwest winds predicted. May make for a bit of a flight up the
burm, but mostly not a day I'm looking towards with overly high hopes, but
weather forecasts and my predictions are known to have been wrong on one or
two occasions, and I assume the birds all know they have to migrate by the
site before November thirtieth if they want to be counted, right?
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Report submitted by Brian Taber (Taberzz@xxxxxxx)
Kiptopeke State Park information may be found at:
www.cvwo.org
