17 Holmes County area birders were at Conneaut on Friday, including many with lots of experience over the last 20 years. Four of us stayed overnite and a total of 15 or so were at the hawk-watch site on Saturday. Four of our own records were broken on Friday. We have never seen so many falcons or Broad-wings on a spring watch. Ripley, N.Y. also set their all-time record on Friday for Broad-winged Hawks. It was the best day any of us have had for watching raptors in Ohio. Saturday totals were not complete yet - the day was slow in comparison to Friday, although a very cooperative immature Golden Eagle was a special treat. Here are the numbers for Friday. ** indicates new spring record or *tied the old one for us (our local records, not Ohio records).

Turkey Vulture                 87
Osprey                                 31
Bald Eagle                             3
N. Harrier                          31
Sharp-shinned                590**
Cooper's                                6
N. Goshawk                        2*
Red-shouldered                  2
Broad-winged              5687**
Red-tailed                            40
Swainson's                             2*
Rough-legged                       4
American Kestrel             97
Merlin                                    12**
Peregrine Falcon                 9**






Bruce

Bruce Glick
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