Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 26, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 2 154 173 Bald Eagle 0 109 122 Northern Harrier 25 371 420 Sharp-shinned Hawk 386 3538 3545 Cooper's Hawk 4 59 60 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 90 36599 36773 Red-tailed Hawk 0 6 8 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 225 2343 2505 Merlin 3 60 61 Peregrine Falcon 4 70 71 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: 739 43311 43740 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:30:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8.5 hours Official Counter: Colin Horstead Observers: Dave Verkley, Keith Sealy, Mark Cunningham, Tom Stewart Visitors: A few visitors again today....John Froome (London) and Alex Fraser (Port Stanley)...our thanks for their help spotting birds today...and as always a big thanks to the hawkwatch crew for today's count...Colin, Dave V., Mark, Keith and Tom S. Weather: Winds actually started the day from the NW light then swung around to the WSW and then SW. Nice skies for viewing with a mix of sun and cloud...temp to a high of 19C. Raptor Observations: It was an interesting day today at the hawkwatch....Total birds today...739....including a 4 more Peregrines. For the first 2.5 hours 6:30 to 9:00am >>>>> 8 migrants...and then the last hour 2 to 3 pm >>>>>> 364 migrants ! Colin was there today at 6:30 (EST) to 7:00 am... with a flashlight! (lol) but didn't have a single bird for the first hour. The hourly counts slowly increased as the day progressed with totals of 8, 2, 38, 62, 95, 60 and then the flood gates opened and they tallied another 364 including a a BW kettle spotted to the north over the tree line. There were raptors all over the sky .... so many and spread out in fact that the counters felt they missed many birds. The majority of the AKs came in along the cliff ... Sometimes 20 together! Non-raptor Observations: No non-raptor report today. ======================================================================== 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