Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 13:45:00 Total observation time: 5.25 hours
Official Counter: Jerry McWilliams
Observers: Bernie O'Connor, Jerry McWilliams, Julie Leonard, Katie Andersen, Randy Donn
Visitors: Bernie O'Connor, Julie Leonard, Roger Donn, and Katie Andersen assisted with the count. Visitors included Michele Franz, Jim Samuel, Brian Berchtold, Doug Massey, Carol Allen, Christie, Jamie, and three or four others.
Weather: Some sun early then cloudy with strong SSW wind and unseasonably warm.
Raptor Observations: A pretty decent flight of TV and RS for this early in the season. Birds were flying close to the shore and most stayed down fairly low. The flight was fairly steady, but began to wane as the clouds thickened and rain arrived. Highlights were a Rough-legged Hawk and a Peregrine Falcon
Non-raptor Observations: Large numbers of Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and American Robins passing through, especially early in the day. Other birds noted were American Crow, Rock Pigeon, House Finch 1, European Starling, Ring-billed and American Herring gulls, Pileated Woodpecker 1. Canada Goose 14, Killdeer 4, Pileated Woodpecker 1
Predictions: WSW wind and cooler with clouds in the AM with some sun in the PM. If the winds are more off the lake, then I don't expect a lakeshore flight. Jerry McWilliamsErie, Erie County, Pa.
