Observation start time: 09:30:00 Observation end time: 12:00:00 Total observation time: 2.5 hours
Official Counter: Jerry McWilliams
Observers: Jerry McWilliams, Julie Leonard
Visitors: Michele Franz and Jim Baxter. Julie Leonard and I counted migrant raptors.
Weather: Mostly cloudy early then gradually becoming partly cloudy, wind SW early then switching to westerly. Cool temps.
Raptor Observations: Few birds passed through, mostly TVs and BWs. They were flying overhead at all heights, but mostly very high later in the watch. A wind shift to the west shut down the watch shortly before 1200 EST.
Non-raptor Observations: Great Blue Heron 2, Double-crested Cormorant 20, White-breasted Nuthatch 1, Barn and Tree swallow, Purple Martin, American Goldfinch 6 Ring-billed and Herring gulls, Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, English Sparrow, American Robin
Predictions: Sunny, but cooler with NW wind. No lake watch.
Jerry McWilliams Erie, Erie County, Pa. <jerrymcw...>
