Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 15, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 0 7 8 Bald Eagle 0 9 9 Northern Harrier 6 57 57 Sharp-shinned Hawk 144 541 541 Cooper's Hawk 1 5 5 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 643 673 Red-tailed Hawk 2 22 22 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 22 342 343 Merlin 3 20 20 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 3 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: 179 1649 1682 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Su Ross-Redmond Visitors: None reported for the day. Thanks to Tom B and Su R for doing a count today. Weather: As predicted the winds were light from the SE for the day with clear blue skies with not a cloud in sight. Temps continue to be way too warm hitting a high of 26C (and feeling much hotter). Raptor Observations: No surprise that the flight was fairly small today with a total of 179 raptors... so we did in fact hit triple digits :) Most of these were Sharpies (144). Non-raptor Observations: None reported. Predictions: Monday's forecast is really more of the same with SE winds for the day. However, of note is that the TUV (Thermal Updraft Velocity) is forecast to be very high across the area from Barrie right down through to the Hawk Cliff area. This means that the Broadwings will almost certainly be taking advantage of this BUT the main flight could be spread anywhere from Hawk Cliff to London and over to Ipperwash Beach where James H has been reporting some good BW numbers. ======================================================================== 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