Half a Million
Today added another 75.000 to the tally. Our volunteers have been counting for exactly 3 weeks now, and have reached a season total of 498.928 raptors! Almost half a million, right? Six more weeks to go, bring it!
The show started with harriers, between 7 and 8 o'clock a constant stream of Montagu's and Marsh over the station with many enjoyable Pallids. Also again a nice passage for Honey Buzzards with gigantic streams moving all around or spreading over the sky. Also and more Black Kites in the streams. Among these, today's highlights include 4 dark morph Marsh Harriers, adult Steppe Eagle and an adult Peregrine low overhead. Again, we want to dedicate this day to our friends who returned to home - this one is for Yves Dubois, Emmanuel Roy and Jonas Schärer thank you very much and see you again!
Steady stream of Honey Buzzards overhead. Photo by John Wright.
Volunteer from Kenya - Welcome Martha Mutiso
We are very pleased that for the 10th anniversary of the autumn count, BRC is able to welcome the first African volunteer into our project. Martha Mutiso is a Kenyan ornithologist and conservationist and having her join us is a small step towards improving the collaboration and conservation efforts along the eastern migratory flyway.
We would like to thank Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association whose financial support helped to realize this.
TWENTY-thousand Honey Buzzards and counting
Today we saw a first wave of Honey Buzzards coming over. A nice start, more to come ;) The first movements of harriers were noted as well. Every evening at 6pm GMT our daily counts are uploaded to Trektellen.org, and you'll find the automatically updated season totals. Check it!