Cranberry Marsh, southwest Whitby, Ontario Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2007-- see table below Hall's Rd. accessed form Victoria St. in southwest Whitby Observation time: 8am to 1pm Official Counter: Doug Lockrey Observers: Rayfield Pye, Jerry Ball, Luc Fazio,Donna Foster, Jim Skene, Frank Oland and 10+ others who helped for at least 1 hr. Visitors: a big thanks to Luc Fazio and several with him; 10+ other visitors Weather: sunny; rising BP; TUV=2; 0-6C; medium N winds became out of the E and light Non-raptor Observations: ring-necked pheasant (not seen here "for a long time");3 fox sparrows, female rose-breasted grosbeak, several pine siskins, many Am.pipits, several snow buntings, horned larks, northern shrike, white throated sparrow Raptor Observations: RTs tend to delay coming through until mid-morning; sure enough, I am assuming that the medium N wind, rising BP and a TUV of 200ft./min.accounted for 111 RTs arriving from the east; BUT, around 10:30am the wind was shifting to the E, and the RTS started to drop off-- probably taking the inland route through Iroquois to our north. SEE TABLE BELOW MOST RAPTORS WERE HIGH IN THE SKY, AND AGAINST A BLUE BACKGROUND!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total > ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- > Black Vulture 0 0 0 > Turkey Vulture 1 8 2262 > Osprey 0 0 167 > Bald Eagle 2 2 51 > Northern Harrier 3 12 224 > Sharp-shinned Hawk 17 47 2076 > Cooper's Hawk 1 12 109 > Northern Goshawk 1 6 8 > Red-shouldered Hawk 6 8 30 > Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 3185 > Red-tailed Hawk 111 742 1362 > Rough-legged Hawk 14 54 59 > Golden Eagle 0 3 6 > American Kestrel 1 8 614 > Merlin 0 1 26 > Peregrine Falcon 0 1 40 > Unknown Accipiter 0 0 13 > Unknown Buteo 0 1 28 > Unknown Falcon 0 0 7 > Unknown Eagle 1 2 4 > Unknown Raptor 1 2 52 > > Total: 159 909 10323 Doug Lockrey, coordinator CMRW ======================================================================== > Report submitted by John Douglas Lockrey (lockrey33@rogers.com) > Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: > http://www.torontobirding.ca/~gtrw > > > BIRDHAWK is sponsored by HMANA. Info, list guidelines: > http://www.hmana.org/ > List archives,subscription options: > http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdhawk.html > To contact a list owner, email to: birdhawk-request@listserv.arizona.edu > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1123 - Release Date: > 11/10/2007 3:47 PM > >