I'm posting this only because I recorded more raptors at Seacliff yesterday (October 21) than both Detroit Metropark and Holiday Beach. Not sure how or why this happened, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Clearing began at 10:30 a.m. when there were so many birds in the air that it was nearly impossible to keep track of everything. After about two hours it became heavy overcast with fewer birds, but everything was flying much lower making for excellent viewing conditions. Total time 6 hours -- 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Some highlights: Turkey Vulture -- 3470 American Crow -- 13,490 Red-tailed Hawk -- 358 (including a dark-morph "Western" Red-tail) Red-shouldered Hawk -- 36 Cooper's Hawk -- 20 Blue Jay -- 1270 (late for so many) Rough-legged Hawk -- 10 Red-headed Woodpecker -- 2 Seacliff is located at the SW corner of Leamington. Directions to the best observation site have been published a few times in OFO News. Alan Wormington, Leamington ________________________________________________________________ Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand. Now includes pop-up blocker! Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today! From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 09:49:30 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web88212.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web88212.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.235]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEEDD488AC for <[email protected]>; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [69.197.100.77] by web88212.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:57:46 EDT Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:57:46 -0400 (EDT) From: GARTH BAKER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Northern Shrike -Innisfil X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:49:31 -0000 Hi All; This morning at 8:45 I watched as the many Juncos,White-crowned,White-throat and Fox Sparrows at my backyard Station made a hasty retreat to the Bush.I anticipated seeing a Sharpie or Coopers Hawk,but was surprised and delighted to see a Hatch Year Northern Shrike.It was almost completely Tan in colour and had only a Shadow of a Mask.It was within view for about 1- 2 minutes at about 25 feet.There were no leg bands and the bill appeared fairly long to rule out a Loggerhead(in my dreams). It soon flew off towards a Neighbors Feeders and has not since returned although the other Birds have been making dashes into the Bushes again now and than. This is rather early for me to see this Species and a first time to have one visit my Backyard. Town of Innisfil ,East of 20th Sideroad on 5th Line to Arnold Street.Right on Arnold toward Lake (1158 Arnold Street) Also saw a Juvenil Light Phased Rough-legged Hawk while at work yesterday evening.!2th Line of New Tecumseth,west of Tottenham Road. Cheer's Garth N. Baker/Innisfil From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 17:05:36 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E66848993 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:05:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 22581 invoked by uid 525); 22 Oct 2004 21:15:13 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Oct 2004 05:10:13 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Cranberry Marsh (22 Oct 2004) 14 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:05:36 -0000 Cranberry Marsh Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 22, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 9 702 1086 Osprey 0 8 116 Bald Eagle 0 3 37 Northern Harrier 0 22 93 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 259 880 Cooper's Hawk 0 21 79 Northern Goshawk 0 6 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 14 17 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 895 Red-tailed Hawk 4 244 454 Rough-legged Hawk 0 10 10 Golden Eagle 0 7 7 American Kestrel 0 63 445 Merlin 0 8 39 Peregrine Falcon 1 13 26 Unknown 0 44 117 Total: 14 1429 4307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 12:00:00 Total observation time: 4 hours Official Counter: Doug Lockrey Observers: Del Umholtz, Jerry Ball, Jim McKnight, Karl Jennewein Weather: dull medium-out-of-the-northeast-wind morning with a BP that began to fall in mid-AM, 6-10C temp., TUV=1 Observations: 1 peregrine, 9 TVs, 4 Red-taileds brown creeper, 5 fox sparrows, 2yellow-rumped warblers, several ruby-crowned kinglets, several juncos, male & female e. towhee ======================================================================== Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.gtrw.ca
