Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch
Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 25, 2009
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 13
Osprey 0 114 120
Bald Eagle 9 137 155
Northern Harrier 23 241 266
Sharp-shinned Hawk 222 3394 3420
Cooper's Hawk 9 67 69
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 5 22011 22038
Red-tailed Hawk 9 44 49
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 1 1
American Kestrel 54 1898 1912
Merlin 2 43 46
Peregrine Falcon 0 27 30
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Total: 333 27977 28119
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Observation start time: 06:00:00
Observation end time: 14:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: Colin Horstead
Observers: Clive Hodder, Dave Weare, Don Taylor, Jason McGuire,
Jim Dunn, Kathy, Keith Sealy, Mary Carnahan,
Ronnie Goodhand
Visitors:
Todd Weeks and Francine Ouellette-Streeting and many more. A big thanks to
them and others for helping at the hawkwtch today...Clive Hodder, Dave
Weare and the many usual diehards! :)
Weather:
Moderate Ne winds to start then swinging to strong from the E. Cool to
start and climbing to 20C with low humidity. Little cloud cover to start
and then building to cover about half the sky.
Raptor Observations:
The flight was smaller today with just 333 birds...mostly Sharpies
(222)...but also some good Coops (9). Only a few BW's (5).
Non-raptor Observations:
Sedge Wren...discovered by Tood Weeks and Francine Ouellette-Streeting was
still around today.
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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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