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Monica Essenmacher

5/2/2018

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1 Green Heron
414 Turkey Vulture
11 Osprey 
5 Golden Eagle 
21 Northern Harrier 
274 Sharp-shinned Hawk 
10 Cooper's Hawk 
4 Bald Eagle
6 Red-shouldered Hawk
6729 Broad-winged Hawk
1 Swainson's Hawk 
60 Red-tailed Hawk
7 Rough-legged Hawk
1 FERRUGINOUS HAWK
3 Dunlin
3 Solitary Sandpiper
7 Greater Yellowlegs
10 Bonaparte's Gull
90 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
1 Belted Kingfisher
3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
6 American Kestrel
2 Merlin
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 PRAIRIE FALCON 
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Tree Swallow
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
16 Palm Warbler
85 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
70 warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)
2 Eastern Meadowlark
1 Baltimore Oriole
2 American Goldfinch
Port Crescent Hawk Watch (Kinch Road), HU

In reference to the Broad-winged flight:

​Record-breaker!  A modest couple thousand in morning, then a crush of over five thousand ultra-high fliers from 2:15-3p. Contacted my hawk-buddies— Tom Beachy, Dan Duso, and Tim Straight- who were looking at empty skies at the PCSP site, and told them to get ready for the “crush” at 4p. I headed to their location, and at 
4:03, the massive squadrons arrived, ending with a total of 5900 BWs, viewed and photographed. Glad to have been able to share the experience
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