Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 11, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 162 9769 9927 Osprey 0 38 181 Bald Eagle 0 43 142 Northern Harrier 8 424 910 Sharp-shinned Hawk 109 5884 11133 Cooper's Hawk 7 232 281 Northern Goshawk 1 5 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 5 30 30 Broad-winged Hawk 0 762 73018 Red-tailed Hawk 18 237 261 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 3 17 17 American Kestrel 3 2278 5000 Merlin 0 49 107 Peregrine Falcon 0 12 35 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 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 316 19780 101048 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Colin Horstead Observers: Dave Verkley, Jim Dunn, Kathy, Keith Sealy Visitors: A couple of visitors today...Don Rysdale and Wendy Kuhn (Niagara Falls). Thanks to today's counters and observers...Colin, Jim, Keith, Dave V. and Kathy. Weather: Predominantly easterly winds...but varying from ESE to ENE Then back round to SE and then all the way back to S..and light for the day. Temp started out at 14C and got ot a very warm high of 27C. Lots of cloud cover today ranging from 40% to 90%. Raptor Observations: Total birds for today's flight was 316. Very slow for the first couple of hours (just a single bird)...then picking up with several species tallied...TV's (162), Harriers (8), Sharpies (109), Cooper's (7), N. Goshawk (1), Red-shoulders (5), Redtails (18), Golden Eagles (3) and just 3 Kestrels. The GE's observed today appeared to be 1 adult bird (very dark overall) and 2 juvenile looking birds. The 3 Kestrels counted today brings our season total for that species to exactly 5000. Non-raptor Observations: A few more Monarchs today still passing by...and lots of E. Starling flocks...only a few Blue Jays on the move. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown (thebro...@ezlink.on.ca) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
