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Birding Reports => Migration Movements => Topic started by: Axeman on August 03, 2011, 12:04:37 AM

Title: raptor migration?
Post by: Axeman on August 03, 2011, 12:04:37 AM

Would it be too early for the raptor migration to have started ? I saw 3 hawks that I couldn't really ID the other day...one was VERY VERY high and the other two were at a regular height...they were all just gliding....white undersides with broad rounded wings...

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Post by: raypye on August 03, 2011, 07:39:24 PM

Most of the movment by raptors at this time of year will fall under the heading of "post breeding dispersal". The birds could be moving in any direction including north.
The raptor that will migrate southward in August is Osprey. On a cold front in mid to late August a few Broad-winged Hawks will migrate.
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on August 11, 2011, 01:31:40 AM

1 big beautiful Osprey flying west along the lakeshore Wednesday afternoon past the Rosetta McClain Gardens Raptor Watch site.  :D

Walter

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Post by: BIGFRANK on August 15, 2011, 03:56:55 PM

Raptors begin to migrate in early August,things pick up in mid-August. Towards the end of August,we see a reasonable number on Northwest winds. At Rosetta McClain Gardens Raptor Watch,this season,abley conducted by Walter,(BluffsBirder) saw 3 Broadwinged Hawks alreay as well as some Osprey.