This is an official posting from the High Park Hawk Watch.
Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario
View Period: Sept. 10 - Sept. 16
Station coordinator: Don Barnett
Participants: D. Barnett, A. Bell, D. Burton, B. Cummming, H. Currie, J.
DeMarco, C.Harte, L. Kinrys, N. McHugh, I. Mahione, T. McCarthy, H. Shapiro, B.
Tannanhill, J. Venturi and B. Yukich
The peak of Broad-winged Hawk migration has come and gone this year for the
High Park Hawk Watch with relatively low numbers. This seems to indicate that
these birds are migrating north of our site, continuing a pattern of the last
few years. We did have one day of fairly high numbers, September 10th when 922
Broad-winged Hawks were counted.
Our totals for this week, Sept. 10 and the year so far are:
Species Week Sept. 10 -16 Best day Sept. 10
Year to Date
TV 12 3
16
Osprey 9 1
19
Bald Eagle 4 2
15
Norther harrier 12 4
16
Sharp-shinned 251 123
342
Cooper's Hawk 13 6
23
Broad-winged Hawk 1023 922
1046
Red-tailed-Hawk 18 7
23
American Kestrel 49 12
63
Peregrine Falson 5 2
8
Unidentified 7 2
8
Totals 1398 1084
1580
High Park Site Description
High Park is a 400 acre wooded park
dominated by a Black Oak Savannah located just west of Downtown Toronto near
Keele and Bloor. The park is operated by the City of Toronto Parks Department.
The Count site (Hawk Hill) is located
on a small hill
at the north end of the Grenadier
Restaurant parking lot. It is located about 1.5km (1 mile) north of Lake
Ontario, at an elevation of 110 metres above sea level and 38 metres above Lake
Ontario. The site location is N 43 degrees 37 minutes 03.8 seconds, W 79
degrees 28 minutes 56.5 seconds. This station is at the highest point and near
the centre of the park; a steep slope that descends to a large pond is
immediately west of the station. Full time counts have been recorded here since
1993.
The following are partners in our
raptor migration monitoring in the Greater Toronto Region: City of Toronto
Parks and Culture Department, Toronto Ornithological Club, and Local
Naturalist's Clubs.
More information including a summary
of our past observations is available at:
http://www.greatertorontohawkwatch.com/
Observations for this season are not
yet available.
--
Howard Shapiro
email: [email protected]
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