Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 04, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 52 1579 21312 Osprey 0 0 338 Bald Eagle 0 20 243 Northern Harrier 2 54 1649 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 118 14015 Cooper's Hawk 2 46 354 Northern Goshawk 2 9 17 Red-shouldered Hawk 4 908 1232 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 99105 Red-tailed Hawk 184 4967 6673 Rough-legged Hawk 0 10 29 Golden Eagle 2 49 96 American Kestrel 0 0 4396 Merlin 0 1 187 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 82 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 259 7762 149728 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Jim Dunn Observers: Eric Jeffery, Mary Carnahan, Tom Stewart Weather: Sun early but soon closed in with heavy dark clouds and dropping temp.Another crappy weather day but a bit better bird day. winds were light from the N and NW and the temp got to a high of 15C. Raptor Observations: A bit btter flight today with a total of 259 birds. Not a bad number of Redtails (184) and highlights were a couple more Goshawks and a couple more Golden Eagles. Non-raptor Observations: A bit of sun this morning brought out a lot of the usual weed-patch foragers including TUFTED TITMOUSE again today. There is still quite a mob of NORTHERN CARDINALS. At least a dozen were foraging in the same patch right at the cliff. FOX SPARROW also put in an appearance along with TREE, WHITE-THROAT, & CHIPPING. A few EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen and heard at the Cliff and the B&B today. These birds were not migrating (at least not today) so there is hope we will have overwintering bluebirds in the vicinity of Hawk Cliff as we have for at least the past 4 years. Predictions: Another tough weather day predicted for Friday...with possible rain or snow...though winds are supposed to be out of the N. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown ([email protected]) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
