Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch
Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 16, 2009
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 612 19610 20092
Osprey 0 7 137
Bald Eagle 0 60 222
Northern Harrier 24 227 508
Sharp-shinned Hawk 304 5808 9822
Cooper's Hawk 18 168 245
Northern Goshawk 1 11 11
Red-shouldered Hawk 99 207 210
Broad-winged Hawk 0 83 22164
Red-tailed Hawk 294 1613 1665
Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1
Golden Eagle 2 8 9
American Kestrel 13 725 2741
Merlin 0 11 61
Peregrine Falcon 1 64 120
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: 1368 28603 58008
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Observation start time: 06:30:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 8.5 hours
Official Counter: Colin Horstead
Observers: Jim Dunn, Kathy, Keith Sealy, Maris Apse, Mary Carnahan,
Tom Bolohan
Visitors:
A couple of visitors today...Mike Munn (St. Thomas), Paul Campbell (St.
Thomas)
Weather:
Moderate NE winds for the day kept the birds moving and nicely down towards
the lake. The temp started at a chilly 0C and gradually climbed to 6 where
it remained steady for the rest of teh count period. Complete cloud cover
to start that broke out through part of the morning then built back in
again in the afternoon.
Raptor Observations:
Not a bad flight today with 1368 birds tallied. Half of today's flight were
TV's (612) with a decent number of Redtails (294) and Sharpies (304). An
excellent flight of Red-shoulders (99) with other highlights being Goshawk
(1), Golden Eagle (2) and Peregrine(1).
Non-raptor Observations:
Thanks to Mary C. for the continued passerine report...both nuthatch
species (WB and RB), both kinglets (RC and GC), lots of sparrows again
today and good sized flocks of Blackbirds and Crows. Killdeer were seen
again today and the highlight was a single COMMON RAVEN (we've had them in
previous yers around this same timeframe).
Predictions:
Saturday looks like another great hawkwatching day...predicted NE winds to
20kph and a mix of sun and cloud.
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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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