Date: 8/25/25 7:34 am
From: <jerrymcw...> <0000001b5c226889-dmarc-request...>
Subject: Erie County waterbird count for August 25, 2025
Location: Sunset Point, PresqueIsle State Park

Date: August 25, 2025

Time: 0635 to 0835 AM

Weather:  Variably cloudy with patches of rain showersover the lake then becoming partly cloudy, W wind to 15 mph, waves 2’ to 3’,temp. 63 F.

Comments:  All birds were moving west.  Hundreds of Bonaparte's Gulls were on themove, though I did not attempt to get an exact count.  There was also a good flight of Common Ternsand Double-crested Cormorants. 

 

Waterbirds recorded:

 

Common Merganser  3

Common Tern  73

Double-crested Cormorant  783

 

Other birds moving along the lake:

 

Mourning Dove  2

Turkey Vulture  1

American Crow  1

Purple Martin  10

Tree Swallow  2

Passerine  1



Jerry McWilliams Erie County, <Pa.jerrymcw...>

 
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