Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 22, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 1 1 Turkey Vulture 4323 12556 14805 Osprey 3 11 62 Bald Eagle 17 181 360 Northern Harrier 42 227 593 Sharp-shinned Hawk 150 1783 3009 Cooper's Hawk 39 136 169 Northern Goshawk 1 11 11 Red-shouldered Hawk 138 159 161 Broad-winged Hawk 2 9 23656 Red-tailed Hawk 606 760 829 Rough-legged Hawk 0 2 2 Golden Eagle 5 16 16 American Kestrel 10 473 1195 Merlin 2 43 81 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: 5338 16429 45064 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:30:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7.5 hours Official Counter: Chris Burris, Dave Brown Observers: Chris Burris, Dave Brown, Eric Jeffery, Jim Bradshaw, Keith Sealy, Kitty Bradshaw, Mac McAlpine, Steve Thorpe, Tom Bolohan Visitors: Lots of visitors today and great to have the help spotting the birds. Thanks to Chris B, Tom B, Mac, Eric, Steve, Ken, Jim, Kitty, Keith and several others for their help today to get the count done. Weather: A bit of a strange day weatherwise with multi-layered cloud cover that initially was so low that birds were disappearing into the clouds. Eventually the cloud deck lifted and the birds went up with it. Temps were much cooler starting at 4C and only getting to a high of 7C by midafternoon. Winds were light for the day initially from the NW then very light from the N for the remainder of the count period. Raptor Observations: Despite the lack of wind to push them down to the lake there was a pretty good flight today with a good portion of it right overhead though going higher and higher as the day progressed. Species variety was good with a total of 13 different species and the total tally was 5338 for the day. A single N. Goshawk was able to almost sneak past before we got a look at it and other highlights were a number of Golden Eagles(5) one which was low and close enough to photograph. Today was the best so far for Red-shouldered Hawks (138) and Redtails (606) have definitely started to make their move and head for warmer climes. Very few falcons today but good numbers of Cooper's Hawks (39) and N. Harriers (42) a number of which were adult/immature males. Non-raptor Observations: Non-raptors included: Common Loon, Canada Goose, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, American Crow, Blue Jay, American Goldfinch, European Starling, Mourning Dove, White-throated Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Black-capped Chickadee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Brown-headed Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, American Robin, Hermit Thrush, Eastern Bluebird, Purple Finch, Eastern Towhee, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, and Winter Wren. Predictions: Saturday is not looking particularily promising with very light winds swinging around from N to W to SW quite quickly which will spread the flight inland. ======================================================================== 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