Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 4 hours
Official Counter: Fred Harrington
Observers: Joe Sullivan
Visitors: Joe Sullivan
Weather: Cold, light N wind. Temps just below freezing. Count started nearly completely cloudy and ended with clear skies.
Raptor Observations: Just a trickle of Turkey Vultures moved through along with 2 Red-tailed Hawks. Local Cooper's Hawk and Red-tails hunted over the count area on the main cemetery road near the Camp Road entrance. As I came in the back way to the cemetery, I found a committee of ~20 TVs roosting in the woods. They took flight and moved NE around 9:30 am.
Non-raptor Observations: Very few birds on the ground or in flight - crows, gulls, robins, starlings, Cardinal, Killdeer and red-wings. On the pond -3 Common Merganser, 4 Hooded Merganser, 2 Canada Geese and 4 Lesser Scaup.
Predictions: Temps near freezing, gusty W wind, partly cloudy with chance of light snow. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Frederick Harrington (<harrinfe...>)
Site Description: This spring only "all volunteer" watch is conducted at Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg, NY. It is located on flat lake plain located along the shoreline of the east end of Lake Erie, about 10 miles south of Buffalo, NY. For additional information contact Jim Landau at <landaujr...>
