Cranberry Marsh, southwest Whitby, Ontario
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2007-- see table below
Hall's Rd. accessed form Victoria St. in southwest Whitby
Observation time: 8am to 1pm
Official Counter: Doug Lockrey
Observers: Rayfield Pye, Jerry Ball, Luc Fazio,Donna Foster, Jim Skene,
Frank Oland and 10+ others who helped for at least 1 hr.
Visitors: a big thanks to Luc Fazio and several with him; 10+ other visitors
Weather: sunny; rising BP; TUV=2; 0-6C; medium N winds became out of the E
and light
Non-raptor Observations: ring-necked pheasant (not seen here "for a long
time");3 fox sparrows,
female rose-breasted grosbeak, several pine siskins, many Am.pipits,
several snow buntings, horned larks, northern shrike, white throated sparrow
Raptor Observations: RTs tend to delay coming through until mid-morning;
sure enough, I am
assuming that the medium N wind, rising BP and a TUV of 200ft./min.accounted
for 111 RTs arriving from the east; BUT, around 10:30am the wind was
shifting to the E, and the RTS started to drop off-- probably taking the
inland route through Iroquois to our north. SEE TABLE BELOW
MOST RAPTORS WERE HIGH IN THE SKY, AND AGAINST A BLUE BACKGROUND!!
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 1 8 2262
Osprey 0 0 167
Bald Eagle 2 2 51
Northern Harrier 3 12 224
Sharp-shinned Hawk 17 47 2076
Cooper's Hawk 1 12 109
Northern Goshawk 1 6 8
Red-shouldered Hawk 6 8 30
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 3185
Red-tailed Hawk 111 742 1362
Rough-legged Hawk 14 54 59
Golden Eagle 0 3 6
American Kestrel 1 8 614
Merlin 0 1 26
Peregrine Falcon 0 1 40
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 13
Unknown Buteo 0 1 28
Unknown Falcon 0 0 7
Unknown Eagle 1 2 4
Unknown Raptor 1 2 52
Total: 159 909 10323
Doug Lockrey, coordinator CMRW
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Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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