1 More Banded - Tuesday, September 18, 2007

More clouds and rainy weather over the mountains today. The weather is one of the most obvious factors that determine how many hawks we see migrating. Pat called to say they only saw 10 today and they caught 1 Red Tail Hawk.

Raptors banded:

1 HY U RTHA

No photos were taken today, so I will entertain you with a few graphs. Our season to date total is at 203 and that is still above our biggest year ever, 2006.




Here is the graph that shows this years species composition to date:



This is the graph that shows the species breakdown for the years 2001-2006: