[TopOfUtah] Broad-winged Hawks: Wellsvilles Hawkwatch , 9/27/08

[Craig Fosdick]

Today, Ryan O' Donnell, Mike Sipos, and I climbed to the Wellsvilles
Hawkwatch and were rewarded with three Broad-winged Hawks; these three birds
bring the Wellsvilles season total for Broad-winged Hawk to 13.  A single
first-year Bald Eagle was only the second of the season for the Wellsville
Hawkwatch.

Ryan pointed out that this is the only time this year that he and I have
gone birding (and we have spent the majority of our free time birding) and
found the specific uncommon/rare bird that we made the trip for! We have
almost always found something else new for our year lists, but never the
exact bird we were looking for.

Approximately 200 raptors were seen today; this was the Wellsvilles best day
of the season and the weather and the birds were great.  And the Hawkwatch
crew of Josh and Ethan (hope I got their names right!) were great fun to
bird with, and very accomodating in pointing out birds.  The trip is well
worth the steep (and I mean steep!) climb.  I highly recommend it!

Location:     Wellsvilles Hawkwatch
Observation date:     9/27/08
Number of species:     14

Osprey     1
Bald Eagle     1
Northern Harrier     X
Sharp-shinned Hawk     X
Cooper's Hawk     X
Broad-winged Hawk     3
Swainson's Hawk     X
Red-tailed Hawk     X
Golden Eagle     X
American Kestrel     X
White-throated Swift     2
Northern Flicker     X
Clark's Nutcracker     X
Common Raven     25

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Good birding, Craig
Logan, Utah.
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