As a follow-up, I thought I'd provide a full walkdown of species seen - sporadically checking - although it became more frequent, even though work had to get done! :-)
Obviously, a few of these were undercounted: Turkey Vulture - 4 Bald Eagle - 5 (3 Adult together + 2 1st year) Northern Harrier - 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 9 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Broad-winged Hawk - 690 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 American Kestrel - 1 Good birding, Frank Pinilla Richmond Hill, ON On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Frank Pinilla <fpinill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Birders, > > On a day when I have work to do, I stepped outside earlier and had a couple > of raptors moving, so have been checking through the day. > > At around 12:30 I had 2 kettles of Broad-winged Hawks of 8 & 20, then at > 1:15pm a 1st year BALD EAGLE with 40+ BWHAs and 4 RTHAs, and 3 Sharp-shinned > Hawks. Then, just now at 2:20pm, I had a kettle of 50+ BWHAs with THREE > ADULT BALD EAGLES, and 5 minutes later kettles of 400+ and 100+ BWHAs that > joined up (what a sight from my backyard!!). > > I am in Richmond Hill (north of Toronto), on the Oak Ridges Moraine, just > west of the intersection of Yonge Street & Stouffville Sideroad. > > > Good birding, > Frank Pinilla > Richmond Hill, ON > _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
