There were about six (I was going pretty fast) just off the shoulder of Highway 3 near the Graham Side Road between Kingsville and Leamington around 8:45.
In the afternoon I stopped at Jack Miner's to check on the reported Ross's Goose but saw no white geese. ===== Joseph E. Faggan Beverly Hills, Michigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 10 19:50:17 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796AB480C2 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from D705LX11 ([67.70.96.41]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:56:43 -0400 From: "Howard Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ontbirds'" <[email protected]>, "Birdhawk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:56:27 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Toronto - High Park Hawk Park Hawk Watch Oct. 4-10 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:50:17 -0000 This is an official posting from the High Park Hawk Watch. Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario View Period: October 4 to October 10, 2004 Station co-ordinator: Don Barnett Counters: D. Barnett, B. Carswell, H Currie, N. McHugh, D. Milsom & H. Shapiro This was one of the better weeks at High Park in what has been a slow year. Sunday, October 10th was especially good as we had 360 Turkey Vultures and 585 total raptors. This week saw our first Northern Goshawk. Also this week we had some unusual passerines at the Hawk Watch including a Red-headed Woodpecker on Saturday and our first ever Northern Mockingbirds (for the High Park Hawk Watch) on Friday. Our totals for the October 10the, the past week and the year so far are: Species Oct10 Oct4-10 Year to Date Turkey Vulture..........360...........751.............1167 Osprey....................-.............-...............16 Bald Eagle................2.............4...............22 Northern Harrier..........2.............2...............17 Sharp-Shinned Hawk......120...........242..............892 Cooper's Hawk............12............18...............65 Northern Goshawk..........-.............1................1 Red-shouldered Hawk.......5.............5................7 Broad-winged Hawk.........-.............-.............1360 Red-tailed Hawk..........67...........117..............319 Rough-legged Hawk.........-.............-................1 Golden Eagle..............2.............4................5 American Kestrel..........7............17..............130 Merlin....................3.............3...............10 Peregrine Falcon..........1.............4...............27 Other(Swainson's Hawk)....-.............-................- Unidentified..............4............14...............52 Total...................585..........1182.............4091 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.torontobirding.ca/~gtrw/ -- Howard Shapiro email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
