Cranberry Marsh Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 07, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 27 1168 Osprey 0 0 116 Bald Eagle 0 1 39 Northern Harrier 1 15 116 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 20 910 Cooper's Hawk 1 8 95 Northern Goshawk 2 6 19 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 19 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 895 Red-tailed Hawk 21 324 849 Rough-legged Hawk 9 106 217 Golden Eagle 0 1 8 American Kestrel 0 1 447 Merlin 0 2 42 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 30 Unknown 1 8 128 Gyrfalcon 0 0 0 Total: 39 520 5098 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Doug Lockrey Observers: Greg Stuart, Karl Jennewein, Rayfield Pye, Susan Morgan/Brian Steele Visitors: 200+ came from "all over" to view the Golden-crowned Sp. and help us with the RW Weather: WNW winds; overcast, becoming nearly cloudless, then clouded again skies; 13C; TUV=100 ft./min.; rising BP Observations: after 2 days of 15 or more hanging-around buteos we finally observed decisions to migrate, albeit not until 11AM: 1 molting male N.Harrier (brown back), 4 Sharp-shinned, 1 Cooper's , 2 N.GOSHAWK, 21 Red-tailed, 9 Rough-legged, 1 UR The RL total is now 217, 5 short of the record 1991 year. 1 1st yr. GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (IT ARRIVED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON)--every 12 minutes this bird appeared on our feeding path with other passerines-- at least 200 visitors came throughout the day 1 N.Shrike several Pine Siskins Someone found the Barred Owl of Nov.3 dead on the beach ======================================================================== Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.gtrw.ca