Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 26, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 48 21210 21692 Osprey 0 7 137 Bald Eagle 0 71 233 Northern Harrier 19 277 558 Sharp-shinned Hawk 66 6148 10162 Cooper's Hawk 4 201 278 Northern Goshawk 0 26 26 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 322 325 Broad-winged Hawk 0 85 22166 Red-tailed Hawk 13 2059 2111 Rough-legged Hawk 0 4 4 Golden Eagle 2 34 35 American Kestrel 2 745 2761 Merlin 0 17 67 Peregrine Falcon 0 66 122 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: 155 31272 60677 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Colin Horstead Observers: Ernie Gribble, Jim Dunn, John Potticary, Kathy, Keith Sealy, Mary Carnahan, Ronnie Goodhand Visitors: Pretty much the diehards out today...thanks to all for getting the count done. Weather: Light E winds swung around to moderate SE. Still above normal temp to a high of 16C. Mostly cloudy in the morning eventually breaking out to few clouds under mostly blue skies. Raptor Observations: Not the biggest flight today with 155 birds tallied. Interestingly, there were almost exactly the same number of Sharpies today (66) as yesterday (65). A single adult Red-shoulder provided some nice looks along with a couple more young Golden Eagles. Non-raptor Observations: As for other species...a single Am. Redstart (female), large flocks of Am. Crows...smaller flocks of Am. Goldfinch, Am. Robin and Blue Jays. However, the real significant movement today was blackbirds. The observers reported a continuous stream of mixed blackbird flocks numbering in the 10's of 1000's that lasted most of the day. This massive flight was happening at three different flight heights as well. ======================================================================== 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