Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 27, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 335 16388 16839 Osprey 0 7 67 Bald Eagle 15 143 183 Northern Harrier 4 204 593 Sharp-shinned Hawk 12 1207 2961 Cooper's Hawk 8 147 190 American Goshawk 0 5 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 13 146 149 Broad-winged Hawk 1 9 7118 Red-tailed Hawk 95 926 955 Rough-legged Hawk 0 9 10 Golden Eagle 6 67 67 American Kestrel 0 246 1213 Merlin 0 30 98 Peregrine Falcon 1 28 45 Unknown Accipitrine 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 1 Total: 490 19562 30494 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Visitors: Some long distance visitors today with Alan Meijer (Tennessee) and David and John Waldarek (New York). Glad they were able to get some good birds for the day! Thanks to Tom B and these visitors for helping get a count done today. Weather: Another cool weather day with pure blue skies and not a single cloud to be seen. Temps from 5C to a high of 11C. Winds were light from the E for the day. High pressure continues to dominate in the entire southern Ontario region. Raptor Observations: A smaller flight today with just 490 birds likely due to the straight ENE and E winds which tends to spread the flight out from the lake shore and quite a ways inland. Still, another 6 Golden Eagles cruised through bringing the total for this species so far this season to 67. A very interesting bird was initially spotted by one of the visitors (Alan M from Tennessee) and was an almost completely white raptor. Closer examination by observers showed it had a bit of black in the wingtips and on the tips of the trailing edge of the wings. Tom was able to ID it as a leucistic Red-tailed Hawk. This is only the 2nd such bird with this kind of plumage... we had the first way back in the early 2000s and that bird had a single black feather in the right wing... otherwise it was pure white. Non-raptor Observations: Tom reported a small group of 4 Sandhill Cranes flying past the hawk watch. ======================================================================== 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