Observation start time: 07:15:00 Observation end time: 12:45:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours
Official Counter: Jerry McWilliams
Observers:
Visitors: Brian Berchtold and my wife Linda for a short chat.
Weather: Cloudy early with occasional snow showers and NNW wind, and quite cold.
Raptor Observations: Surprise! Surprise! In all of the years at this hawk watch I have never had a good movement of vultures moving along the lake with winds OFF the lake. Many vultures roosted overnight along the bayfront with Julie Leonard reporting over 100 birds roosting at her house. TV movement was steady and low until it cleared in the early PM when the flight shut down. Despite all of the vultures there were few hawks observed.
Non-raptor Observations: Canada Goose, Mourning Dove, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Ring-billed and Herring Gull, American Robin, Red-breasted Merganser, American Crow, Double-crested Cormorant, a few blackbirds, and Eastern Phoebe.
Predictions: The weather much the same as today. However, after what happened today, I better not say "nothing is likely to happen in the way of a flight."Jerry McWilliamsErie, Erie County, <Pa.jerrymcw...>
