Photo of the Week: First Time Visitor at Detroit River Hawk Watch

An elongated dark brown animal stops on the rocky shoreline before a lake seawall. Lake Erie boat channel with homes across the channel in the background, a wooden park bench with surrounding grass in the foreground.

When I go to the Detroit River Hawk Watch along the Detroit River in southeast Michigan, I expect to see hawks migrating over Lake Erie.

High in the sky in kettles or streaming in a line over the lake as they head south.

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Photo of the Week: Detroit River Hawk Watch

Blue and black horizontal banner with brown and white Sharp-shinned hawk with outstretched wings flying in a blue sky hangs on two poles. In the background is the boat channel to Lake Erie with trees on the shoreline.

Each fall, starting in early September I make almost weekly treks to Lake Erie Metropark on the western shore of Lake Erie to view one of the most impressive fall hawk migrations in North America.

This year marks the 43rd year of the Detroit River Hawk Watch (DRHW), where thousands of raptors can be seen streaming over the Lake Erie Metropark boat launch during fall migration.

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