Cranberry Marsh Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 19, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 15 692 1076 Osprey 1 8 116 Bald Eagle 1 3 37 Northern Harrier 0 22 93 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 259 880 Cooper's Hawk 2 21 79 Northern Goshawk 3 6 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 14 17 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 895 Red-tailed Hawk 76 238 448 Rough-legged Hawk 7 10 10 Golden Eagle 5 7 7 American Kestrel 0 63 445 Merlin 0 8 39 Peregrine Falcon 2 12 25 Unknown 22 42 115 Total: 144 1410 4288 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 4 hours Official Counter: Dan Kaczynski Observers: Bill Scott, Dennis Barry, Jerry Ball, Jim McKnight Weather: strong NNE winds persisted from 8am to 1030, with rising BP, temp. rising from 4 to 10C, overcast skies gradually dispersing, TUV=1; then the winds shifted to SE. Observations: In spite of the low TUV, and perhaps because of "leftover" birds from yesterday we had good numbers coming through between 0830 and 1115 EDT; then it fried up. 15 TV, 1 Osprey, 1 BALD EAGLE, 8 SS, 2 Cooper's, 3 N.GOSHAWKs, 2 Red-shouldered, 76 RT, 7 ROUGH-LEGGEDs, 5 GOLDEN EAGLEs, 2 Peregrines, 22 distant unidentifieds towhee, fox sparrows ======================================================================== Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.gtrw.ca
