Duluth Spring Raptor Count 2011 Photo Gallery by Erik Bruhnke at pbase.com

Duluth Spring Raptor Count 2011

I am a hawk counter this spring of 2011, spending nearly all of my non-guiding days up at Enger Tower and Thompson Hill, depending on the wind directions. With some count interpreting background, I'm excited to do a little teaching as I count (heavy-flights permitting) :-)

More information on this count can be found at http://hawkridge.org/research/springcount.html

Adult Peregrine Falcon	Golden Eagle	Adult Rough-legged Hawk (male)	Bald Eagle	Adult Bald Eagle with broken Primaries	Immature Bald Eagle
Immature Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle, migrating with an open mouth	Bald Eagle sprinting through the air	American Crow mobbing Red-tailed Hawk	Juvenile Bald Eagle	Juvenile Golden Eagle
Bohemian Waxwing flock - part of the ~400 that flew by today	Bohemian Waxwing flock - part of the ~400 that flew by today	Partial Albino Red-tailed Hawk	Partial Albino Red-tailed Hawk	Partial Albino Red-tailed Hawk	Albino Red-tailed Hawk
Adult Bald Eagle	Adult Bald Eagle	Adult Bald Eagle	Adult Bald Eagle	Adult Bald Eagle	Rough-legged Hawk and Bald Eagle
Adult Bald Eagle soaring	Cooper's Hawk courtship-displaying!	Ring-billed Gull	Ring-billed Gull	Rock Pigeon	Rock Pigeon
Adult Red-tailed Hawk	Turkey Vulture	American Kestrel	Bald Eagle	Cooper's Hawk	Adult (eastern) Red-tailed Hawk
Adult (eastern) Red-tailed Hawk	Sandhill Crane	Turkey Vulture - wanna ride in a thermal with me?	Cooper's Hawk	Osprey - first of the year!	Kriders x Eastern Integrade Red-tailed Hawk
Adult (western) rufous morph Red-tailed Hawk	Belted Kingfisher - this little lady sure was flying by fast!	Double-crested Cormorant	Osprey	My "Bird Van," while counting hawks :-)	Song Sparrow
Northern Flicker flying by	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker taking off... look at the beautiful colors and little feet!	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker getting ready to take off...	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.... yum, sap!!!	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker flying away	American White Pelicans - flying over the Blotnik Bridge - Duluth, MN	American White Pelicans... such, um... grace :-)	American White Pelicans	Broad-winged Hawk! The first one of the season!
Broad-winged Hawk banking around sharply, to ride the thermals	Broad-winged Hawk... look at that cool tail!	American Kestrel (female)	Peregrine Falcon	Red-tailed Hawk	Sharp-shinned Hawk - well fed, while on the move :-)
Sharp-shinned Hawk	Tundra Swans	Hawkcounting on a day just below freezing and 39mph gusts!	Hermit Thrush, just arrived last night!	Hermit Thrush - looking pudgy, cute and mean (all at once) from the front :)	Hermit Thrush showing off that gorgeous red tail
American White Pelican	2nd-cycle Bald Eagle	Have to place a check-mark in the adult Bald Eagle section of the data sheet!	Sharp-shinned Hawk with food!	Sharp-shinned Hawk with food!	2-year-old Bald Eagle
2-year-old Bald Eagle	Cooper's Hawk	Common Loon	Northern Flickers calling & displaying!	Red-tailed Hawk - adult, eastern form	Turkey Vulture

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