Date: 2/6/21 9:50 am From: Michael Fialkovich <0000012b4af48ab0-dmarc-request...> Subject: WRS--Allegheny
County - AlleghenyDate - 2/6/2021Obs.- Mike FialkovichSurvey time (subtract breaks) : Hours: 2 Minutes- 18Start/End time: 8:50am / 11:08amMiles on route: 56 Avg Temp.- 27Clear/Pt cloudy/Cloudy- ClearWind – Calm/Light/medium- LightInches Snow cover- 1 Harriers (age/sex if poss.)- 0 Red-tails- 5 (4 adults, 1 imm.) Rough-legs- Light/Dark- 0 Kestrels- TOTAL (M/F/ND)- 0 TVs- 0BVs- 0 Red-shoulders – age if possible 0Bald Eagles- Ad/Imm. 0 Sharp-shins, Cooper’s, Merlin, Peregrine, 0 Gold. Eagle, Goshawk (documentation required!) 0 N. Shrike? 0
Comments - Been running this route since 2001. For nearly the first half of the route I didn't have any raptors. Struck out on Bald Eagle at the usual spot. Once I got to the open country near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and Imperial I started to find red-tails. After last year's great Red-shouldered count, I found none this year. Sunshine during the entire route but cold with a steady temperature of 27 degrees.
