Bradbury Mountain Hawkwatch: Week 8

There was quite a bit of fog, cloudiness, and rain this week which made for some long days when we were up on the mountain. This was our slowest week of the season with only 3 days posting any hawks. An American Goshawk on 5/7 was fun, only to be upstaged by 3 more on 5/8. Only six days remain in the season and we are 3 hawks away from 6500!

Week 8 Totals (current week - total to date – season average)  

BLACK VULTURE  0-6-1

TURKEY VULTURE  0-614-403  

OSPREY 17-327-404

SWALLOW-TAILED KITE 0-0-0   

MISSISSIPPI KITE   0-0-0   

BALD EAGLE 3-87-80

NORTHERN HARRIER 6-137-106

SHARP-SHINNED HAWK 22-668-660

COOPER’S HAWK 8-46-69

AMERICAN GOSHAWK 4-6-6      

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 0-73-89

BROAD-WINGED HAWK 13-3793-1773

SWAINSON’S HAWK 0-0-0

RED-TAILED HAWK 0-88-209

ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK 0-0-1

GOLDEN EAGLE 0-0-0       

AMERICAN KESTREL 10-521-354

MERLIN 11-72-70

PEREGRINE FALCON 1-5-6

UNIDENTIFIED RAPTOR 2-54-47  

TOTAL 97-6497-4277