Banding Season Totals for 2022

Hello Everyone,

Our nine weekends of the 2022 banding season seemed to go very fast this year. Having electricity at Hawk Harbor made the camping much more comfortable. However, the weather patterns were so odd this year that we only had a few days with major numbers of birds pushing through on the weekends that we were up there. That combined with some rained out weekends made the count this year the lowest we have had for the past 15 years.

Even so, socially this was a fun season at Hawk Harbor. We didn't have all the big groups that we used to have come up before Covid, but we did get some visitors and campers that made the nine weekends very enjoyable.

I would like to thank all the friends and neighbors who made this year so special, even though we had low banding numbers.

A very special THANK YOU goes to the Mattson family for letting us use their hay field for the 53rd year in a row.

Also a big THANK YOU goes to Bob Crosbie for supplying our lure birds this year.

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU goes out to every one of our banding crew who came up to do the banding again this year. What a great and dedicated team of regulars we have. Trudi Taylor, Rick DuPont, Nancy & Chuck Schotzko, and Todd Rosengren: without your dedication and co-operation, we would not be able to do this thing we love so much, year after year.

Thanks for being such great friends and sharing an interest in our modest program!

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!

We had a total of 70 birds for the season. (Last year we had a total of 172 hawks.)

We had a total of only 10 bounce-outs this year. (We had 18 bounce-outs last year.)

Here it is, the final breakdown.

Sharp-shins - 54

Immys 27. . . . Males 14 . . . . . Females 13

Adults 27. . . . Males 12 . . . . . Females 15

Red-tails - 7

Immys 4 . . . . . Males 1 . . . . . Females 3

Adults 3 . . . . . Males 3 . . . . . Females 0

Merlins - 3

Immys 3 . . . . . Males 2 . . . . . Females 1

Adults 0 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 0

Cooper's - 2

Immys 1 . . . . . Males 1 . . . . . Females 

Adults 1 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 1

Broad-wings - 1

Immys 0 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 0

Adults 1 . . . . . Males 1 . . . . . Females 0

Kestrels - 2

Immys 2 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 2

Adults 0 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 0

Goshawks - 1

Immys 1 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 1

Adults 0 . . . . . Males 0 . . . . . Females 0

Eagles - 0, Gyrfalcons - 0, Peregrines - 0, Harriers - 0, Rough-legs - 0.

Please help hawks by supporting:

Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory ( https://www.hawkridge.org/ )

Midwest Peregrine Society ( https://midwestperegrine.umn.edu/ )

National Eagle Center ( https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/ )

Raptor Resource Project ( https://www.raptorresource.org/ )

The Raptor Center ( https://raptor.umn.edu/ )

Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch ( http://ospreywatch.blogspot.com/ )

Keep your eyes on the skies!

Trudi and Frank Taylor