Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 16, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 1 1 Turkey Vulture 1527 19582 19590 Osprey 0 9 62 Bald Eagle 21 183 235 Northern Harrier 6 197 528 Sharp-shinned Hawk 245 1681 3677 Cooper's Hawk 1 102 147 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 13 117 121 Broad-winged Hawk 0 8 1301 Red-tailed Hawk 122 551 607 Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1 Golden Eagle 5 15 16 American Kestrel 0 222 1386 Merlin 0 26 74 Peregrine Falcon 0 40 59 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 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 1 Total: 1940 22736 27806 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: 1Counter, Mac McAlpine Observers: Dave Verkley, Ronnie Goodhand Visitors: A few visitors today. Thanks to Mac M, Dave V and Ronnie G for doing the count today. Weather: A pretty good day for raptor migration today with northerly winds all through the count period. Temps started quite cool at 4C and got to a high of 10C. Pressure was fairly steady while there was pretty hood cloud cov er for most of teh day. Raptor Observations: A decent flight with 1940 raptors tallied. The majority of today's flight was TVs (1527), Sharpies (245) and Redtails (122). Also a good flight of Bald Eagles (21) with N. Harriers (6) and Red-shoulders (13) and the real highlight was the Golden Eagles (5) including a late one at the end of the afternoon. Non-raptor Observations: None reported today. Check any eBird reports for the Hawk Cliff hotspot for today. Predictions: The winds are supposed to be southerly for the next several days so most of the flight will be inland from the lake shore. The only flight at the hawk watch may be right along the cliff edge because of the lift from the updraft there. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown (ez.raptor1210@gmail.com) 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