Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 10, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 297 11045 11243 Osprey 0 10 210 Bald Eagle 5 67 211 Northern Harrier 6 154 466 Sharp-shinned Hawk 122 1831 6688 Cooper's Hawk 10 53 108 Northern Goshawk 0 2 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 48 48 Broad-winged Hawk 0 12 100354 Red-tailed Hawk 6 102 108 Rough-legged Hawk 1 1 1 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 6 1189 3609 Merlin 1 12 86 Peregrine Falcon 0 16 44 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 7 Unknown Buteo 0 1 2 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Total: 454 14543 123188 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 10 hours Official Counter: Colin Horstead Observers: Don Taylor, Jacques Giraud, Jim Dunn, John Potticary, Keith Sealy, Ronnie Goodhand, Sam Lee, Shay Redmond Visitors: Cathy Knott (St. Thomas), Brett(?) Weather: Light N winds and then variable winds settling S and SW for the remainder of the day. Temp made it to 17C. Not a cloud in the sky making observing very difficult. Raptor Observations: The flight started slowly...but eventually picked up and resulted in 454 birds tallied. Best bird of the day was our first Rough-legged Hawk for the season...a nice light-morph. Non-raptor Observations: Various individuals reported Bluebirds, kinglets, a very late Ruby-throated Hummingbird and to the west of the hawkwatch site 400+ Yellow-rumped Warblers in many flocks moving along the lakeshore. ======================================================================== 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