Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 10, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 1321 3742 4429 Osprey 0 8 123 Bald Eagle 9 32 170 Northern Harrier 23 45 387 Sharp-shinned Hawk 408 852 4561 Cooper's Hawk 28 46 182 Northern Goshawk 2 4 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 26 27 37 Broad-winged Hawk 2 4 14898 Red-tailed Hawk 130 207 666 Rough-legged Hawk 1 6 6 Golden Eagle 1 1 2 American Kestrel 93 205 2622 Merlin 0 15 50 Peregrine Falcon 1 36 53 Unknown 0 0 13 Total: 2045 5230 28204 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 8.5 hours Official Counter: Keith Sealy Observers: Alf Ryder, Barry Cherriere, Dave Brown, Linda Visitors: Lots and lots....including Brian Prytulak, Lance and Faye Allin, Alf Ryder and Barry and Linda Cherriere, Colin and Tony from T.O., others from Sarnia and Cambridge and London. Weather: Definitely one of the better days I've enjoyed at Hawk Cliff...lots of clouds to aid as backdrop for spotting the birds. Flight height was low and high as the clouds moved in or just as quickly disappeared. Temp to 20 with moderate N winds. Observations: Awesome day today. Had a total of 13 species counted...including or first Rough-legged Hawk (a nice light-morph), only our second Golden Eagle (juvenile)which actually made a stoop on one of the raptor banding stations but pulled up at the last second and so passed us along the cliff edge at most a 100 feet up. WOW!!! Also had a couple more Goshawks...both adult birds. If only we could've had an Osprey and a Merlin we'd of had 15 species. Oh well....hard to complain after such a great day. ;) ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown (thebrowns@ezlink.on.ca) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.on.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch: Oldest Hawkwatch in Ontario - since 1931 - located just east of Port Stanley on the cliff overlooking Lake Erie