Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 23, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 1 1 Turkey Vulture 3135 15691 17940 Osprey 0 11 62 Bald Eagle 11 192 371 Northern Harrier 18 245 611 Sharp-shinned Hawk 137 1920 3146 Cooper's Hawk 12 148 181 Northern Goshawk 1 12 12 Red-shouldered Hawk 265 424 426 Broad-winged Hawk 0 9 23656 Red-tailed Hawk 492 1252 1321 Rough-legged Hawk 1 3 3 Golden Eagle 11 27 27 American Kestrel 3 476 1198 Merlin 1 44 82 Peregrine Falcon 0 59 111 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 Swainson's Hawk 0 2 3 Total: 4087 20516 49151 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Visitors: Thanks to Tom B for doing today's count. Weather: Pretty much solid cloud cover for the day and light winds that started from the NE for the morning before swinging all the way around to the S and SW. Temps were cool starting at 5C and getting to a high of 8C. Humidity stayed fairly high today and the pressure was steady. Raptor Observations: Well, turned out it was a much better day than I had expected although the latter part of the flight did move inland away from the main site. Still, there were many more birds on the move through the Hawk Cliff area possibly because it was a good movement the day before that brought them down to Lake Erie so they were "in the pipeline". The total birds for the day was 4087 with the bulk being TVs (3135) as always at this point in the migration. However, Redtails (492) and Red-shoulders (265) continued to push through along with good numbers of N. Harriers (18) and Sharpies (137). Highlights today were several Golden Eagles (11) and another lone Rough-legged Hawk. Non-raptor Observations: Tom reported 3 Sandhill Cranes flying past in the afternoon. Predictions: Tomorrow winds are forecast to start again from the NE which should help get the flight going but then it will again swing around to the S which will push the flight inland. Fingers crossed for a decent flight as tomorrow is the OFO outing to Hawk Cliff. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Dave Brown (thebrowns@ezlink.ca) 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