Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 05, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 449 2810 3236 Osprey 0 0 79 Bald Eagle 2 8 107 Northern Harrier 11 26 297 Sharp-shinned Hawk 57 336 2333 Cooper's Hawk 1 15 66 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 3 61 5152 Red-tailed Hawk 10 27 66 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 12 77 1763 Merlin 1 3 71 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 70 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: 546 3366 13241 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:30:00 Observation end time: 12:00:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Jason McGuire, Keith Sealy Visitors: Thanks to Tom B, Keith, Jason, Catherine and several visitors for hanging in as long as they did to get a count done today. Weather: Not many clouds around today with lots of blue skies making spotting birds more difficult. Winds were moderate from the NE and then ENE then switching right around all the way through SE and finally S which shut down the flight for the day. Temp was much cooler to start at 4C and getting to a high 11C. Raptor Observations: A much smaller flight today with only 546 birds tallied.....most were TVs (449). Non-raptor Observations: A few Monarchs on the move today along with a decent flight of Blue Jays (5,500). ======================================================================== 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