Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 24, 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 3 366 368 Osprey 0 14 18 Bald Eagle 1 39 60 Northern Harrier 3 104 106 Sharp-shinned Hawk 94 1547 1548 Cooper's Hawk 3 23 23 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 6184 6187 Red-tailed Hawk 0 4 4 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 43 373 389 Merlin 1 20 20 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 2 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: 149 8677 8726 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 10:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 3 hours Official Counter: Catherine Manschot, Matt Mills Observers: Catherine Manschot, Matt Mills Visitors: Thanks so much to Matt and Catherine (NPH) for doing a count for us today and glad they got some birds on what is typically a not so great wind direction at this site. Only visitors listed were Tim and another Tim J. Weather: Temps from 20C to 24C. Winds WSW for the count period. Raptor Observations: A decent flight today with a total of 149 raptors tallied. Most were Sharpies and of course Am. Kestrels. There were a few Bald Eagles observed but they were likely local birds except for a single Sub-adult looking bird which I've included in the count. This is always our problem at this point in the season when we see adults and young birds cruising back and forth along the cliff all day. Non-raptor Observations: Several flocks of Am. Goldfinch (120), Yellow-rump and Blackpoll warblers, Gray Catbird, E. Towhee, quite a few RT Hummingbirds(8), N. Rough-winged Swallow, Common Nighthawk and hundreds of Blue Jays(950). ======================================================================== 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