This is an official posting from the High Park Hawk Watch.
Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario
View Period: Sept. 17 - Sept. 23
Station coordinator: Don Barnett
Counters & Observers: Anne Marie Leger, Naish McHugh, Celia Harte, Howard
Shapiro, Ian Mahione. Joe Venturi. Cal Tanti, Tim McCarthy, David Smallshire,
Don Barnett, Mark Lichtenberg
Today, Sept. 23 was the best day of the week with 281 raptors observed.
Broad-winged Hawks have still not made an appearance in large numbers at our
site this year. The 100 which were observed today came through in singles with
the exception of one loose flock of 30 birds. Our totals for this week, Sept.
23 and the year to date are as follows:
Sept. 17-23 Best Day September 23
Year to Date
Turkey Vulture 28
19 44
Osprey 4
1 23
Bald Eagle 7
2 22
Northern Harrier 5
4 21
Sharp-shinned Hawk 138 102
480
Cooper's Hawk 5 4
28
Broad-winged Hawk 100
99 1146
Red-Tailed Hawk 21 13
44
American Kestrel 41
34 104
Peregrine Falcon 1
1 9
Unidentified 11
2 19
Total 361
281 1941
High Park Site Description
High Park is a 400 acre wooded park
dominated by a Black Oak Savannah located just west of Downtown Toronto near
Keele and Bloor. The park is operated by the City of Toronto Parks Department.
The Count site (Hawk Hill) is located
on a small hill
at the north end of the Grenadier
Restaurant parking lot. It is located about 1.5km (1 mile) north of Lake
Ontario, at an elevation of 110 metres above sea level and 38 metres above Lake
Ontario. The site location is N 43 degrees 37 minutes 03.8 seconds, W 79
degrees 28 minutes 56.5 seconds. This station is at the highest point and near
the centre of the park; a steep slope that descends to a large pond is
immediately west of the station. Full time counts have been recorded here since
1993.
The following are partners in our
raptor migration monitoring in the Greater Toronto Region: City of Toronto
Parks and Culture Department, Toronto Ornithological Club, and Local
Naturalist's Clubs.
More information including a summary
of our past observations is available at:
http://www.greatertorontohawkwatch.com/
Observations for this season are not
yet available.
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Howard Shapiro
email: [email protected]
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