Hi folks! Anyone that was out driving around yesterday in NW Ohio should have been shadowed by hawks flying overhead. Light winds turned southerly by 11 AM and kept the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) volunteers busy on the tower at Magee Marsh W/A. Hawks were flying on all sides of the tower and by late afternoon the Turkey Vultures were tree height. Close to 500 birds were seen from the tower. I received early this morning a report from another BSBO volunteer who counted at the site at Maumee Bay Sledding Hill yesterday. He counted over 600 birds in less than 3 hours. The birds were moving in a broad band north and west. Late March is the peak for raptor diversity and peak time for Turkey Vultures and Red-tailed Hawks. BSBO's Hawk Count numbers can be found on www.bsbobird.org upper right corner. It is a great time to get outdoors! Enjoy spring, Julie Shieldcastle Black Swamp Bird Observatory ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]