Observation start time: 05:15:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 11.75 hours
Compiler: Bracken Brown
Counters: Andy Price, Catherine Elwell
Visitors: 225
Weather: Mostly cloudy becoming overcast and hazy early in the morning, partly cloudy in late afternoon. Winds were light and variable settling to the SW.
Raptor Observations: Four migrants adult bald eagle, immature northern harrier, cooper's hawk and broad-winged hawk. Peregrine falcon stooped on decoy owl.
Non-raptor Observations: Least sandpiper, chimmney swift, ruby-throated hummingbird, eastern wood-peewee, great-crested flycatcher, Barn swallow, purple martin, yellow warbler, black-throated green warbler, black-and-white warbler, golden-crowned kinglet. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Laurie Goodrich (<goodrich...>) Hawk Mountain Sanctuary information may be found at: http://www.hawkmountain.org/