Bradbury Mountain Hawkwatch: Week 7

The first half of the week brought some warmer springlike temperatures and southeasterly winds. A change in the weather pattern for the last three days ushered in some rain, cooler temperatures and east winds. A decent couple of days of hawkwatching were had early in the week, but things went downhill pretty quickly after that. Our numbers are staying below average by quite a bit, with the exception of Northern Harrier. Where are all the Sharp-shinned Hawks? We are hoping for some more amenable weather this week to pad the numbers a bit – 3000 is right around the corner. And, any day is a good day with a Peregrine, and we had 3 this past week!

Week 7 Totals (current week - total to date – season average) 

BLACK VULTURE  0-0-1

TURKEY VULTURE  0-439-414      

OSPREY 23-496-400

SWALLOW-TAILED KITE 0-0-0   

MISSISSIPPI KITE   0-0-0   

BALD EAGLE 4-62-81

NORTHERN HARRIER 6-125–108

SHARP-SHINNED HAWK 64-292–661

COOPER’S HAWK 4-43–68

AMERICAN GOSHAWK 0-3-6      

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 2-69–88

BROAD-WINGED HAWK 84-1180-1888

SWAINSON’S HAWK 0-0-0

RED-TAILED HAWK 2-69–202

ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK 0-0-1

GOLDEN EAGLE 0-1-0       

AMERICAN KESTREL 18–255-364

MERLIN 14-46–71

PEREGRINE FALCON 3-6-6

UNIDENTIFIED RAPTOR 4-21-47 

TOTAL 228–2907-4407