Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 24, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 994 13476 13634 Osprey 1 28 113 Bald Eagle 5 75 106 Northern Harrier 12 983 1324 Sharp-shinned Hawk 63 5993 8279 Cooper's Hawk 9 477 518 Northern Goshawk 3 35 35 Red-shouldered Hawk 43 681 681 Broad-winged Hawk 1 2245 5319 Red-tailed Hawk 449 2411 2411 Rough-legged Hawk 2 15 15 Golden Eagle 4 22 22 American Kestrel 4 1910 4527 Merlin 0 52 97 Peregrine Falcon 0 55 88 Unknown 27 133 145 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2 Total: 1617 28592 37316 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Keith Sealy Observers: Alf Ryder, Mike Street Visitors: Thanks a bunch to Mike Street and D. Verkley for helping out Keith as a counters today. They actually did the count just north of the Cliff along the Sparta ridge. Thanks too to Alf Rider who helped cover the Cliff site itself along with several visitors including Irene and Dorothy from Chatham who helped find the only Osprey of the day :) Thanks to all who helped out...we really appreciate it. Weather: PLEASE NOTE***** I'm resubmitting the counts for the 24th to ensure I include the additional counts provided by Alf Rider from the Cliff site itself. They were independent of the counts done by Keith, Mike and Dave at a site just north of the Cliff site. Lots of cloud cover in the morning with light winds initally out of the W. Winds eventually swung to the SW and got a bit stronger while the sun broke through by midday. Temp made it to 13 today. Observations: Another 1000+ count for today with mostly TV's and Red-tails with just over 400 of each. Had 2 more Rough-legs and 4 more Golden Eagles...and plenty more to come :) Most interesting bird today was described as a dark Red-tail...with dark reddish-brown colouration on the body and wing linings all finely barred with black wingtips and translucent secondaries and tertiaries and most of the tail. The tail had a dark, narrow sub-terminal band and thin white terminal band. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch: Oldest Hawkwatch in Ontario - since 1931 - located just east of Port Stanley on the cliff overlooking Lake Erie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
