Cranberry Marsh
Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 17, 2004
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 513 897
Osprey 1 7 115
Bald Eagle 0 2 36
Northern Harrier 0 22 93
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 231 852
Cooper's Hawk 0 16 74
Northern Goshawk 1 1 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 8 11
Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 895
Red-tailed Hawk 3 132 342
Rough-legged Hawk 0 2 2
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 1 59 441
Merlin 0 8 39
Peregrine Falcon 0 9 22
Unknown 0 13 86
Total: 7 1028 3906
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 11:00:00
Total observation time: 3 hours
Official Counter: Doug Lockrey
Observers: Dave Worthington, Karl Jennewein, Tony Nicholls,
Colleen Bird
Visitors:
The cold winds and upcoming rain kept visitors to a minmum for the first
time. Four of us braved it for 2-3 hours.
Weather:
strong SW to WSW winds all morning; overcast sky, steady BP and a TUV=2;
all of this before the start of a drizzly rain
Observations:
1 Osprey, 1 Sharp-shinned, 3 Red-taileds, 1 Kestrel AND CMRW's
first-for-the-season N.GOSHAWK.
Before we arrived to start the count I heard a report of over 40 Turkey
Vultures that had just gone over Frenchman's Bay to the west. Did they go
over CMRW??-who knows.
We now have 3 FOX SPARROWS. Other birds incl.--2 Dark-eyed Juncos, several,
of each of White-throated, White-crowned and Song Sparrows; 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler, a few Cedar Waxwings, our 4 "resident" N.Harriers
and at least 2 Great Egrets.
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Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cranberry Marsh information may be found at:
http://www.gtrw.ca
