Hawk Watch Sunday October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!!!

Today's hightlight? We broke 40,000 raptors before November. Heck yea!!


Cape May
Cape May Point, New Jersey, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 31, 2010
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Species            Day's Count    Month Total   Season Total
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Black Vulture               27            130            176
Turkey Vulture             109            892           1090
Osprey                       5           1789           4530
Bald Eagle                   6            233            409
Northern Harrier            93           1160           1631
Sharp-shinned Hawk         434          12587          17807
Cooper's Hawk               73           2801           3685
Northern Goshawk             0              2              2
Red-shouldered Hawk          8            109            114
Broad-winged Hawk            1            754           1207
Red-tailed Hawk             44            443            582
Rough-legged Hawk            0              0              0
Golden Eagle                 2              8              8
American Kestrel            58           2762           5561
Merlin                      17           1352           2173
Peregrine Falcon             8           1092           1369
Unknown Accipiter            0              0              0
Unknown Buteo                0              0              0
Unknown Falcon               0              0              1
Unknown Eagle                0              0              0
Unknown Raptor               0              0              0

Total:                     885          26114          40345
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Observation start time: 06:30:00
Observation end   time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 9.5 hours

Official Counter:        Melissa Roach

Observers:       

Weather:
West winds to start with but becoming Northwest for half of the day.

Raptor Observations:
A good number of vultures (Turkey and Black), Northern Harriers,
Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Red-tailed Hawks.  We even had a small trickle of
American Kestrels coming through as well.

Non-raptor Observations:

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