Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 16, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 6 6 6 Osprey 4 47 47 Bald Eagle 27 56 56 Northern Harrier 3 51 51 Sharp-shinned Hawk 55 973 973 Cooper's Hawk 0 3 3 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 2284 3980 3980 Red-tailed Hawk 5 9 9 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 18 334 334 Merlin 2 26 26 Peregrine Falcon 1 6 6 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: 2405 5491 5491 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Mac McAlpine Observers: Eric Single, John Froom, Keith Sealy Visitors: Thanks to Mac, Keith, John F and Eric S for getting today's count done. Weather: Winds were light from the ENE and E with lots of cloud cover. Temps were 15C to start and getting to 22C. Raptor Observations: If the winds had been more northerly today's flight at Hawk Cliff would've been much bigger. Unfortunately, the mainly easterly winds pushed the birds to our west.... as proven out by the large counts of Broadwings at both Holiday Beach and Detroit River hawk watches today. The counters had a total of 2,405 raptors today with the bulk being Broadwings (2,284) and Sharpies (55) along with several other species. Non-raptor Observations: No passerine report... but a good movement of Monarchs. One of the counters provided tally of 90 during a few minutes early in the morning. ======================================================================== 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: http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=392