Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 08, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 116 297 11422 Osprey 0 1 62 Bald Eagle 14 29 252 Northern Harrier 4 13 607 Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 22 3632 Cooper's Hawk 8 20 209 Northern Goshawk 2 3 7 Red-shouldered Hawk 25 52 297 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 48949 Red-tailed Hawk 419 568 2086 Rough-legged Hawk 1 1 2 Golden Eagle 5 7 34 American Kestrel 0 2 1503 Merlin 1 6 132 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 33 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 0 2 Total: 601 1021 69229 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Dave Brown Observers: Mac McAlpine, Richard Skevington Visitors: A big thanks to Mac, Richard S, Ken, Jeff and Alexander for helping with today's count. Weather: Bright sunshine and light to moderate NE to ENE winds finally getting round to straight E. Temp much cooler this morning starting at 0C and getting to a high of just 10C. Pure blue skies all day made spotting the birds very difficult and finally at 2:00 pm they went up and out of sight completely ending the count. Raptor Observations: Not a bad flight overall with good variety and a good push of Redtails (419) and Red-shoulders (25) along with highlights of Golden Eagles (5), a couple more N. Goshawks, and a lone Rough-legged Hawk (Dark morph). Non-raptor Observations: A very good movement of passerines during the first 2 -3 hours with good sized mixed flocks of blackbirds (including several Rusty Blackbirds) and at least 3 small flocks of Evening Grosbeaks. For the rest of the sightings see the following eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S122098271 Predictions: The rest of the week is forecasting southerly winds each day which will pretty much push the flight line of migrants well inland away from the hawk watch. Looking further ahead the weekend may be better BUT we'll have to wait and see how the storm system from the western US interacts with the potential hurricane / post-tropical storm Nicole that's forecast to come up the eastern seaboard. ======================================================================== 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