Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 18, 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 99 99 101 Osprey 1 6 10 Bald Eagle 9 35 56 Northern Harrier 27 43 45 Sharp-shinned Hawk 848 1085 1086 Cooper's Hawk 9 16 16 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1759 5204 5207 Red-tailed Hawk 0 0 0 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 60 298 314 Merlin 3 19 19 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: 2816 6808 6857 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Chris Burris Observers: Don Campbell, Keith Sealy Visitors: A big thanks goes to our counters today... Chris B with help from Don C. and Keith S. A tough day of counting with pure blue skies! Weather: Temps ranged from 7C-16C. Winds were N to NNW around 20 km/h with occasional gusts. Cloud cover was 0% for most of the day, increasing to 40% by the end. Raptor Observations: Oh, you cruel, cruel blue! Over 2800 raptors today, but there’s no telling how many we missed when the sky had ZERO clouds for most of the day. We were lucky with a few low singles and kettles of Broad-wingeds in the morning, but as the wind picked up more of an easterly vector, many probably went high. This became painfully evident when even wisps of cloud in the afternoon made the raptors magically appear again. Highlights included 50 Sharp-shins in less than five minutes in the morning, a Broad-winged stream of about 250 later, and a nice raptor sandwich with 2 TVs and an Osprey on the bottom, 100 Broad-wingeds in the middle, and two Bald Eagles on top near the end of day. Non-raptor Observations: Non-raptors included: Common Loon, Canada Goose, Ring-billed Gull, American Crow, Blue Jay (starting to move in good numbers – maybe 2000 today), American Goldfinch, Gray Catbird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, American Robin, Black-throated Green Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, Northern Cardinal, Cedar Waxwing, and Common Nighthawk. Predictions: Saturday should start fairly well with continuing NE to E winds till there's supposed to be a wind shift around 1 to 2 pm. Let's hope for at least a few clouds to help spot the birds. ======================================================================== 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