Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 10, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 22 47 47 Bald Eagle 11 21 21 Northern Harrier 22 66 66 Sharp-shinned Hawk 410 626 626 Cooper's Hawk 15 16 16 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 6042 6141 6141 Red-tailed Hawk 17 18 18 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 142 410 410 Merlin 1 6 6 Peregrine Falcon 2 2 2 Unknown 0 1 1 Total: 6684 7354 7354 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Su Ross-Redmond Observers: Ches, Dave Brown, Keith Sealy Visitors: A dozen or so visitors today including Mark from the Soo and others from both St. Thomas and London. Tom and Colin were there as well (good timing guys!) but no Tim in sight.... Weather: Awesome weather today...although a bit too sunny to start with not a cloud in sight. Light NW winds stuck it out till around 2:00 in the afternoon and started seeing good cumulous clouds forming indicating good thermals. TUV=4 (Good) Observations: LOTS!!! A really great day today with over 6000 Broadwings counted along with 11 Bald Eagles, 22 Osprey and even a couple of Peregrine Falcons thrown in for good measure. Predictions: With lots of sun, warmer temps and bright sunny skies it may be a slow day...unless there's some birds early Saturday that are "leftovers" from the big push today. NOTE: This is one of the Hawk Cliff key weekends with live bird demos at 11:00 and 2:00 both Saturday and Sunday. ======================================================================== 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 Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch: Oldest Hawkwatch in Ontario - since 1931 - located just east of Port Stanley on the cliff overlooking Lake Erie