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Bob reports a decent day with our first kestrels of the season. Broad-winged Hawk 80 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper’s Hawk 4 Mississippi Kite 71 American Kestrel 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 Merlin 1 Osprey 1

Bob reports a great day! Shows you what north winds will do for migrating raptors. Broad-winged Hawk 580 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Swainson’s Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper’s Hawk 5 Mississippi Kite 72 Peregrine Falcon 6 Osprey 2

Bob reports another slow day but the Swallow-tailed Kites keep on rolling through: Broad-winged Hawk 15 Cooper’s Hawk 2 Mississippi Kite 19 Swallow-tailed Kite 5 Northern Harrier 1

Bob reports another day with south winds. Will they ever go away? Broad-winged Hawk 58 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Cooper’s Hawk 1 Mississippi Kite 18 Swallow-tailed Kite 9 Northern Harrier 1 We are having a great year for Swallow-tailed Kites!

Bob reports yet another south wind day but not as strong as the past few days. Thus a few more birds. Broad-winged Hawk 23 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Cooper’s Hawk 2 Mississippi Kite 13 Swallow-tailed Kite 4 Merlin 1 Osprey 1

Another day with strong south winds and thus not many birds. Broad-winged Hawk 7 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper’s Hawk 3 Mississippi Kite 6 Swallow-tailed Kite 1 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1

Tad reports another slow day with strong south winds. Broad-winged Hawk 1 Cooper’s Hawk 2 Mississippi Kite 12

Bob reports a slow day with strong south winds. Broad-winged Hawk 3 Mississippi Kite 11 Swallow-tailed Kite 1

Bob reports a slower day than the past few with only 56 raptors. Broad-winged Hawk 4 Mississippi Kite 50 Swallow-tailed Kite 2 The highlight of the day was a Magnificent Frigatebird and a Swallow-tailed Kite hanging about 20 feet above the tower for a bit. In Bob’s words “It was awesome!”.

Another decent day: Broad-winged Hawk 23 Cooper’s Hawk 2 Mississippi Kite 26 Swallow-tailed Kite 1 Northern Harrier 1

Bob reports another good day! First big flock of Anhingas (150) passed over. Broad-winged Hawk 122 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Cooper’s Hawk 1 Mississippi Kite 227 Osprey 1

Bob reports a GREAT day! Broad-winged Hawk 101 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Mississippi Kite 328 Swallow-tailed Kite 19 Also a first year and second year White-tailed Hawk hanging around for comparison. Things are heating up! Don’t forget to pick up your t-shirt while you at Smith Point. Also our photography workshop with Alan Murphy on October 1, still … Read More