Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 23, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 13 Osprey 2 111 117 Bald Eagle 0 122 140 Northern Harrier 0 180 205 Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 2889 2915 Cooper's Hawk 0 53 55 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 21948 21975 Red-tailed Hawk 0 20 25 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 0 1651 1665 Merlin 1 37 40 Peregrine Falcon 2 19 22 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 Total: 10 27031 27173 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Jim Dunn Observers: Mary Carnahan, Su Ross-Redmond Visitors: Thanks to Don and Beth Wigle for helping Jim, Su and Mary with today's (Wednesday's) count along with several previous days. Weather: Light SW winds that gained strength to moderate bt midmorning. Temp was fairly steady at 20C. Lots of cloud cover to start the day and then slowly breaking out to a mix of sun and cloud. Raptor Observations: A very small flight today with just 10 raptors counted! However, there were 2 Peregrines that zipped through...at least one of which was a nice adult that was photographed. Non-raptor Observations: ======================================================================== 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