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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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