Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch
Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 14, 2008
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 448 11795 11993
Osprey 0 10 210
Bald Eagle 1 72 216
Northern Harrier 3 167 479
Sharp-shinned Hawk 153 2353 7210
Cooper's Hawk 3 66 121
Northern Goshawk 0 2 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 50 50
Broad-winged Hawk 0 12 100354
Red-tailed Hawk 19 139 145
Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1
Golden Eagle 2 3 3
American Kestrel 36 1244 3664
Merlin 2 15 89
Peregrine Falcon 1 19 47
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 7
Unknown Buteo 0 1 2
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Mississippi Kite 0 0 1
Total: 669 15949 124594
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Observation start time: 06:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 10 hours
Official Counter: Colin Horstead
Observers: Ches Caister, Dave Brown, Jim Dunn, Mary Carnahan,
Wayne Parnall
Visitors:
Karen Pakkala, Carol Lapointe and Ann Brokelman (T.O.), Mark Fairweather,
Jackie Oakley and Paul Heagle (Ottawa), Derek and Sylvia Roe (Woodstock)
Weather:
Moderate winds from the SW to start and then swinging fairly quickly to the
NW. A tough start to the day with lots of cloud and the threat of rain
that eventually came in the form of a heavy mist during the first hour or
so. Once this cleared to mostly blue skies and the winds went NW the
humidity dropped and the birds started to fly.
Raptor Observations:
A decent flight today with 669 birds total...but ONLY after one of the
slowest starts I've ever waited out. In the first 6 hours, other than a
flight of TV's...we would've had just 13 birds!! Once the flight started we
were able to find many of the raptors using the TV's as a focus. Golden
Eagles put in an appearance again today with 2 crossing through at the same
time. Just a single Red-shoulderd Hawk and a more Redtails (19). One more
Peregrine as well.
Non-raptor Observations:
More Yellow-rumped Warblers today...and another Great Horned Owl just after
first light.
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Report submitted by Dave Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at:
http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm
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