Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 16, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 1 24 26 Bald Eagle 3 22 25 Northern Harrier 24 119 122 Sharp-shinned Hawk 99 672 674 Cooper's Hawk 0 13 15 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 84 6715 6719 Red-tailed Hawk 0 5 5 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 46 331 334 Merlin 0 20 20 Peregrine Falcon 1 4 4 Unknown Accipitrine 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 7926 7945 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Harold V. Observers: Visitors: Thanks to Harold V for recording tody's count and for several visitors who helped out. Weather: Light winds initially from the NE but backing fairly quickly around through E then ESE and finally to the SE. Basically no clouds for the day making spotting any migrants nearly impossible. Temps continuing on the warm side from 14C to 23C. Raptor Observations: Today's small flight highlights how key the wind direction can be to whether the flight is along the lake shore and passing the hawk watch (by northerly winds) or is being pushed inland (by southerly winds). The other issue today was the complete lack of cloud cover making spotting migrants very difficult. The total flight was just 259 birds... with only 84 Broadwings tallied. A small number of other raptors also were counted. Non-raptor Observations: Monarch count: 45 No report of non-raptors was provided today. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown ([email protected]) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm More site information at hawkcount.org: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=392 -- Ontbirds and Birdnews are moderated email Listservs provided by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) as a service to all birders in Ontario. Birdnews is reserved for announcements, location summaries, first of year reports, etc. To post a message on Birdnews, send an email to: [email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns, contact the Birdnews Moderators by email at [email protected]. Please review posting rules and guidelines at http://ofo.ca/site/content/listserv-guidelines To find out more about OFO, please visit our website at ofo.ca or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists.
