Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch
Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 02, 2010
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 1375 2443
Osprey 0 8 286
Bald Eagle 1 13 153
Northern Harrier 26 101 915
Sharp-shinned Hawk 23 1210 8463
Cooper's Hawk 0 36 138
Northern Goshawk 0 1 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 12
Broad-winged Hawk 0 321 98917
Red-tailed Hawk 0 9 73
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 36 430 3947
Merlin 1 10 150
Peregrine Falcon 0 8 60
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: 87 3523 115559
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 6 hours
Official Counter: Colin Horstead
Observers: Dave Brown, Derek Lyon, Jennifer Lyon, Mark Cunningham,
Tom Bolohan
Visitors:
Today was supposed to be our special open house for "Doors Open Ontario -
Elgin County". Unfortunately, the weather made it nearly impossible to
setup for the event at Hawk Cliff...though we did have several visitors
stop by the site.
Weather:
Cold and miserable on the knoll today with fairly steady rain. Temp only
made it to a high of 10C but it felt colder in the moderate NE winds.
Raptor Observations:
Despite the rotten weather there were birds on the move today with a total
of 87 birds.
Non-raptor Observations:
The rain did bring one benefit with a fallout of passerines. There were
lots of warblers and kinglets in the surrounding trees...including Pine,
Blackpoll, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green and both kinglet species.
Several Yellow-bellied Sapsucker were spotted along with many Downie
Woodpeckers, several Red-breasted Nuthatch and a Brown Creeper. There were
also many sparrows with White-throated, White-crowned, Song and Lincoln's.
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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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