Observation start time: 05:15:00 Observation end time: 18:00:00 Total observation time: 12.75 hours
Compiler: Bracken Brown
Counters:
Visitors: 107
Weather: Partly clo0udy and light northwest winds0-10 in the morning, becoming calm and overcast for early afternoon, before wind picked up and pushed clouds out of the region.
Raptor Observations: Good flight mainly on thermals during late morning, end of afternoon had a small push of osprey while an adult peregrine falcon hung around the lookout.
Non-raptor Observations: Common nighthawk, ruby-throated hummingbird, black-billed cuckoo, prairie, chestnut-sided, black-throated green, blackburnian, and black-and-white warbler. Horned lark, song sparrow
Predictions: Sunny high of 84, calm wind in the am becoming west 5mph in pm. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Laurie Goodrich (<goodrich...>) Hawk Mountain Sanctuary information may be found at: http://www.hawkmountain.org/
