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The fall migration of raptors, songbirds and other migratory species has been slowed this year because of a lack of strong cold fronts which help push the birds southward, according to a report issued by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.
The commission maintains a banding station at Kiptopeake on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where biologists trap, count and band migrating birds to establish numbers and patterns of the annual migrations.
During the weekend of October 11 and 12, more than 300 ospreys were counted flying south over Kiptopeake. Ospreys spend the summer on the Chesapeake Bay, and have normally moved south by the first of October. Some osprey have also been reported inland during the past week.
The same count also produced a record number of endangered peregrine falcons, with 82 birds counted. According to the commission, this is a good indication that the peregrine, which had disappeared from Virginia at one
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