Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 28, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 100 100 Osprey 3 73 73 Bald Eagle 1 90 90 Northern Harrier 18 174 174 Sharp-shinned Hawk 39 1607 1607 Cooper's Hawk 1 19 19 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5027 5027 Red-tailed Hawk 0 12 12 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 42 1540 1540 Merlin 1 59 59 Peregrine Falcon 3 66 66 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: 108 8767 8767 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 11 hours Official Counter: Dave Brown Observers: Cary Graham, Derek Lyon, Jason McGuire, Keith Sealy, Tom Bolohan, Tom Stewart Visitors: A big thanks to everyone that helped with today's count (too many to list out here) but it wouldn't be possible without all those eyes scanning the sky! :) Lots of visitors today for the start of the 2nd open house weekend. Weather: A weird day weather wise with a nice mix of sun and cloud to start but way too humid and winds light from the SW. Then the clouds filled in and we had a couple of bouts of light rain and then winds switched to the NW and temps dropped noticeably. Raptor Observations: We struggled to get to triple digits today with a total of just 108 raptors observed. Best birds today were the 3 Peregrines two of which were right on the deck and a decent movement of N. Harriers (18) with almost all being young birds and a couple that looked like adult females. Non-raptor Observations: Some other bird species were noted today including 7 species of woodpecker! Pileated, Red-bellied, Red-headed (juv.), Harry, Downy, N. Flicker (15+) and a single YB Sapsucker (juv.). We also had a few warblers... Cape May, Magnolia, Black and White and American Redstart along with Am. Crow and Am. Robin. A couple of Chimney Swifts zipped past and other birds spotted flying through included Herring and Ring-billed Gulls, DC Cormorant, Canada Geese, Killdeer, Common Loons (2), Mourning Dove and Rock Pigeon. Other species.... WB Nuthatch, Gray Catbird, Belted Kingfisher, Carolina and Winter Wrens, RC Kinglet, Red-eyed Vireo, E. Starling Cedar Waxwings and Northern Cardinal. Also spotted was a very large dark bird just passing to our north right at treetop height that we're almost sure was a Common Raven but we weren't able to get it in the scope for more than a split second. Might be worth keeping an eye out in areas to the west of Hawk Cliff for this bird. ======================================================================== 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