Cranberry Marsh Whitby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 10, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- BV 0 0 0 TV 405 900 1443 OS 1 3 92 BE 0 1 52 NH 0 9 81 SS 8 17 874 CH 2 6 52 NG 2 2 3 RS 2 2 4 BW 0 0 224 RT 1 19 50 RL 0 0 0 GE 0 0 0 AK 1 6 243 ML 1 5 38 PG 1 5 14 UA 1 2 5 UB 1 1 7 UF 0 0 1 UE 0 0 0 UR 0 0 17 Total: 426 978 3200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Rayfield Pye Observers: Gord Gallant, Jean Iron, Ron Pittaway Visitors: Steven O'Donnell, Karl and William Konze, and several people who got a life bird with the godwit. Weather: light north winds, switching to south winds mid morning. Raptor Observations: most of the flight was inland near the 401 Non-raptor Observations: Hudsonian Godwit-1 (present all day in the marsh), Cackling Goose- 51, Snow Goose- 5, Common Loon- 8, Rusty Blackbird- 6, Pileated Woodpecker-2, Great Egret- 14 (wing tags- 81S, 87J, and 1 leg band), migrating Monarchs- 18 Predictions: strong south winds for the next 2 days (not good) ======================================================================== Report submitted by Rayfield Pye (raypye@interlinks.net) Cranberry Marsh information may be found at: http://www.torontobirding.ca/site/page/view/hawkwatch.info