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BALD EAGLES - almost a Record Year! We are almost there! As of October 8, we have 80 Bald Eagles for the season. The yearly record, set last year, is 82. So, we should have a new record before the end of this next week. With today's rain, it will probably be tomorrow or Sunday. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS - a very good year We are up to 6796 Broad-winged Hawks for the year, the best since 2001. See our Broad-winged Hawk Report. See also: video 9/09 NORTHERN HARRIERS - a low year Twenty years ago we would never have guessed that by October 8th we would have more Bald Eagles than Northern Harriers for the season. Yet, this year we have only 44 Harriers, only a little more than half the number of Bald Eagles, and 41% less than our average of the last five years to this date. AMERICAN KESTRELS - still low numbers Our Kestrel numbers continue to be low. At only 120 American Kestrels so far this year, we are only 55% of the average of 220 to this date for the last five years. See HM trends and interpretive analysis at FI. NORTHERN GOSHAWK - first of the year counted on Oct. 8. We are still waiting for the first Golden Eagle. Be sure to come up to Hook to help us count. Our mission is conservation of raptors. We keep the count to monitor population trends of raptors. Celebrate our counters! Trudy Battaly, compiler |