Cranberry Marsh Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 164 677 1061 Osprey 0 7 115 Bald Eagle 0 2 36 Northern Harrier 0 22 93 Sharp-shinned Hawk 20 251 872 Cooper's Hawk 3 19 77 Northern Goshawk 2 3 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 4 12 15 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 895 Red-tailed Hawk 30 162 372 Rough-legged Hawk 1 3 3 Golden Eagle 2 2 2 American Kestrel 4 63 445 Merlin 0 8 39 Peregrine Falcon 1 10 23 Unknown 7 20 93 Total: 238 1266 4144 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Jerry Walsh Observers: Dennis Barry, Jim McKnight, Rosemary Harris, Steve Wood Weather: 5 hours of light northerlies was followed by a swithch to SW winds; BP rising, then began to fall; TUV=2 Observations: for 3 hours we counted 8 migrants; then 230 came through over the last 2 hours; 164 TV, 20 SS, 3 Cooper's, 2 N.GOSHAWK, 4 RED-SHOULDERED, 30 RT, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED, 2 GOLDEN EAGLES ( the first at CMRW), 4 AK, 1 adult tundrius Peregrine, 7 Unidentifieds 3 FGox Sparrows, several Cedar Waxwings, 1 male E.Towhee, 1 Junco ======================================================================== Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.gtrw.ca
