Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 12:15:00 Total observation time: 2.25 hours
Official Counter: Jerry McWilliams
Observers: Julie Leonard
Visitors: Julie Leonard assisted with the count. Two visitors.
Weather: Cloudy then becoming variably cloudy with occasional showers and a thunderstorm at the end of the count. Warm, with strong SSW wind.
Raptor Observations: Some short storm interruptions, with flights of TVs and a few raptors between storms. With the strong southerly winds and mostly cloud cover kept birds close to the lake and low.
Non-raptor Observations: Huge numbers of blackbirds, mostly Red-wings, starlings and grackles continue. Other birds recorded were Canada Goose 2, Wood Duck 2, Rock Pigeon 2, Mourning Dove 1, Killdeer 2, Calidris species (probably Pectoral Sandpiper), Ring-billed Gull 20, American Crow, American Robin (many), Eastern Meadowlark 1
Predictions: Cold with a high in the upper 30s with WNW wind, so a lakeshore flight not likely. Jerry McWilliamsErie, Erie County., <Pa.jerrymcw...>
