Comments for Keweenaw Raptor Survey http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org Documenting Spring Raptor Migration in the Keweenaw Peninsula Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Spring 2011: FINAL RESULTS! by Joe Kaplan http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/07/10/spring-2011-final-results/#comment-431 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:03 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1236#comment-431 AG,

Congratulations on your nice round number. You can probably appreciate the emotional angst experienced in 1988 when I was the hawk counter at Whitefish Point: I ended the season with precisely 19,998 birds. No spreadsheets back then, just painful longhand that, no matter what I did, just couldn’t make that number budge.

]]> Comment on Spring 2011: FINAL RESULTS! by katelyn kronshage http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/07/10/spring-2011-final-results/#comment-360 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:26:15 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1236#comment-360 magnificent! thank you so much for all the hard work, I enjoyed viewing the blog and made my way to the mountain once!

]]> Comment on A Season’s End by Debra Mues http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/06/15/a-seasons-end/#comment-355 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:41:11 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1229#comment-355 An amazing day June 14th! 2nd to the last day of the 3 month raptor survey. Unforgettable. Here’s 3 Haiku from the day.

All day overhead
Broadwings and Eagles swoop by.
The Middle of June!

On Brockway Mountain
Among the migrating birds
I watch with Masters.

Right over our heads
Broadwings suddenly appear
Sunlight through their wings.

Debbie Mues

]]> Comment on An Ocean of Green Meets A Sea of Blue by luba http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/05/26/an-ocean-of-green-meets-a-sea-of-blue/#comment-351 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:45:53 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1193#comment-351 This is such a gorgeous time of year on top of Brockway, when it suddenly springs into life and all the greens are still so fresh and bright, without the dulling dust of summer. You can see the mountain change in a matter of hours, right before your eyes.

And then the black flies hatch, and wonder is replaced by irritation and itching……

Hope you’ve had a wonderful time up there this spring. I was glad to have had a chance to meet you, and hope our paths will cross again some day.

(Are the warblers still coming?)

]]> Comment on A Blistering Revival! by Daniel W. Hanninen http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/05/13/a-blistering-revival/#comment-340 Tue, 17 May 2011 00:01:28 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1162#comment-340 You’re doing a great job. I enjoy reading your log of the raptors on Brockway. I miss the U. P. DAN

]]> Comment on A Blistering Revival! by Robert Visconti http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/05/13/a-blistering-revival/#comment-338 Mon, 16 May 2011 01:23:41 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1162#comment-338 Wow,

Those numbers are incredible Arthur. I only wish Vic, Steve, Karen, and myself would have had the good fortune of witnessing some of those flights first hand!

Oh well,

There is always next year!

Great meeting you~~~

Robert

]]> Comment on Who we are by Marilyn Carien http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/about/333-2/#comment-335 Sun, 08 May 2011 01:25:17 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?page_id=333#comment-335 Five of us drove from Madison up to Brockway Mountain to observe the hawk migration. The day was fine and the hawks very graceful, BUT THE BEST THING WAS THE AMAZING INFORMATION PROVIDED BY ARTHUR GREEN WHO is THE OFFICIAL COUNTER.

Arthur is not only knowledgeable about every aspect of hawk life, (how they fly, how their metabolism compares to song birds, why flying over Lake Superior is so hazardous that many opt to fly around it) but even better he is an excellent teacher. I’m sure I asked some dumb questions, being a novice, but he was able to answer them is such a way that opened the eyes and minds of everyone around. All the time, he carefully kept track of each siting.

If you get a chance go up and take advantage of his expertise. He is one in a million.

]]> Comment on Bleak SS Days (cont.) by larry riedinger http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/05/02/bleak-ss-days-cont/#comment-334 Fri, 06 May 2011 01:18:17 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1150#comment-334 Those number are sure provocative! Been thinking of, and sharing, your remarks at WPBO’s Spring Fling ever since. Am looking forward to any clearing of the mystery.

The “numbers game” here in the Fox Cities is getting really interesting. I suspect we are seeing the Yellow-rumped warbler peak – and their companions today that I noted as first on my ’11 (WI) list are: Indigo bunting; Palm, Yellow, Black-and-White, Nashville warblers; Northern waterthrush; Northern Rough-winged swallows; and Chipping sparrow.

Do get back with me Skye, so I can get you and Noel Cutright connected – especially regarding wind farm policy development.

All the best!

]]> Comment on The Ordinary is Extraordinary! by awg http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/04/21/the-ordinary-is-extraordinary/#comment-325 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:28:05 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1096#comment-325 Hi, Bill!

Thank you for your comments. For me, seeing raptors of any kind is a treat! I also thank you for your enthusiasm for HawkCount and our submissions to that system. I really think it’s a gem, and as far as I know, there is nothing analogous to it anywhere else in the world. (I’ll be attending a raptor conference in the caucasus this fall, and my hope was to see if I could encourage some of HMANA’s eurasian counterparts to consider setting up something like it!)

I’m not sure why hawkwatching, in particular, got me into clouds; I showed no previous interest in clouds, and I was never the kind of kid who saw faces or cheese chunks or whatever in the clouds above. But I’m enamored now! I think, if anything, hawkwatching helped break me out of a shell that numbed me to the myriad amazing things that were around me this time but for which I paid no heed.

Anyway! :-)

\\ Arthur

]]> Comment on The Ordinary is Extraordinary! by awg http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/2011/04/21/the-ordinary-is-extraordinary/#comment-324 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:13:53 +0000 http://keweenawraptorsurvey.org/?p=1096#comment-324 Janice,

Thank you very much for your reply! I also wish I could meet you this year. Yes, I’m glad there is a hawkwatch at Brockway now, and I’m particularly excited by the groundwell of support it been receiving from the residents of Copper Harbor. In any case, I hope to meet up with you soon enough!

Be well,
\\ Arthur

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