Observation start time: 05:45:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 11.25 hours
Compiler: Rebecca McCabe
Counters: Alex Ramsey, Julia Davis, Mitchell Pruitt
Visitors: 78
Weather: Clear to partly cloudy throughout the day, light NW winds.
Raptor Observations: Very distant birds throughout the day until the last two hours when broadwings were streaming low, mid, and high above the lookout.
Non-raptor Observations: Decent songbird flight in the morning with over 400 tree swallows, 1000+ cedar waxwings, 14 hummingbirds, Magnolia, Cape May, BT Blues and Greens, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, Scarlet tanagers.
Predictions: Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Laurie Goodrich (<goodrich...>) Hawk Mountain Sanctuary information may be found at: http://www.hawkmountain.org/