Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 22, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 3 23 24 Bald Eagle 1 13 13 Northern Harrier 10 110 110 Sharp-shinned Hawk 155 1307 1307 Cooper's Hawk 0 11 11 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 7 836 866 Red-tailed Hawk 3 34 34 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 38 579 580 Merlin 6 32 32 Peregrine Falcon 1 4 5 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: 224 2950 2983 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Ronnie Goodhand, Su Ross-Redmond Visitors: thanks to Tom B, Su R and Ronnie G for doing today's count. Weather: Once again very poor weather conditions for raptor migration with fog for the first 4 hours of the day before finally burning off. Winds quickly settled in to SE for count period and cloud cover remained almost complete. Temps continued to be quite warm with a high to 24C but feeling warmer with the humidex. Raptor Observations: A total of 224 raptors passed through today despite the not great weather. Most were Sharpies (155) with small numbers of other species. Non-raptor Observations: None reported for today. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown (ez.raptor1210@gmail.com) Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch information may be found at: http://www.ezlink.ca/~thebrowns/HawkCliff/index.htm More site information at hawkcount.org: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=392