Cranberry Marsh, southwest Whitby, Ontario
Daily Raptor Count: Nov 13, 2007--see table below
Observation time: 08:30 to 13:00:00
Official Counter: Doug Lockrey
Observers: Don Lloyd, Jerry Ball, Joyce Collier-Brown, Rosemary Harris, Jim
Skene, John Stirrat, Karl Jennewein, Charlie Adey
Visitors: 8
Weather: rising, then falling BP, TUV=1; 3-10C; light wind started out of
the NW,
but shifted to the SW by 10:30am
Raptor Observations: with very little thermal activity, and with light winds
that shifted to the south the raptors had little "reason" to drift westward
along the lakefront --only 23 migrants in 4.5 hrs.
Non-raptor Observations: 3 Common Redpolls, m & f Purple Finch, Northern
Shrike, 6 Snow Buntings, Pine Siskin (on the feeder for 15min.), 2 Fox
Sparrows. 1 Rusty Blackbird, 2 Snow geese
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 8 2262
Osprey 0 0 167
Bald Eagle 0 2 51
Northern Harrier 3 16 228
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 56 2085
Cooper's Hawk 4 16 113
Northern Goshawk 0 6 8
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 10 32
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 3185
Red-tailed Hawk 10 764 1384
Rough-legged Hawk 1 56 61
Golden Eagle 0 3 6
American Kestrel 2 11 617
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 0 2 4
Unknown Raptor 0 2 52
Total: 23 955 10369
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Doug Lockrey ,coordinator CMRW
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Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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