Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 22, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 118 7389 8076 Osprey 1 16 131 Bald Eagle 3 41 179 Northern Harrier 4 95 437 Sharp-shinned Hawk 86 1773 5482 Cooper's Hawk 13 145 281 Northern Goshawk 1 14 15 Red-shouldered Hawk 7 162 172 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 14899 Red-tailed Hawk 195 1098 1557 Rough-legged Hawk 6 16 16 Golden Eagle 0 3 4 American Kestrel 2 242 2659 Merlin 2 29 64 Peregrine Falcon 0 40 57 Unknown 0 6 19 Total: 438 11074 34048 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Su Ross-Redmond Observers: Visitors: Again Jann and Gil Randall from the New York Ripley Hawkwatch. Thanks to the two of them for helping out Su today. :) Weather: Well...it just goes to show you that sometimes the birds decide to move whether the weather and winds aren't the best. Perhaps it's all the dismal type weather that's been hanging over Southern Ontario the whole week. Today's E winds typically don't bring a very good flight...especially combined with a TUV=2(Poor). Temps were cool and lots of cloud cover. Observations: Once again had Jann & Gil's help, which I was very grateful for, because at times the birds were coming at us left, right and center!!! Lucky for us today we did get 3 immature Bald Eagles. The first passed through, then a few minutes later Gil looked back and saw the imm. with an adult. The immature was crying and then the adult dropped something from it's talons, and the young one attempted to catch it - but missed!!! Very cool to watch! Again today we had some nice Rough-legs, one dark morph, and some very nice looks at the Red-shoulders. But probably the highlight today was a Dark morph Red-tail...what an extremely different bird to see. No Goldens - but for East winds, not a bad day at all!! Predictions: Se winds predicted...so I wouldn't expect a lrage flight...but the birds proved today that if they can get a brighter day with no rain...they just might move anyways. I'd say that the first really good sunny day we get with a higher TUV should see a pretty big push of birds...keep an eye out for Tuesday and Wednesday coming up this week. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch: Oldest Hawkwatch in Ontario - since 1931 - located just east of Port Stanley on the cliff overlooking Lake Erie
