Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 11, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 250 2831 3282 Osprey 2 6 66 Bald Eagle 1 19 59 Northern Harrier 4 72 461 Sharp-shinned Hawk 51 355 2109 Cooper's Hawk 0 21 64 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 6 9 Broad-winged Hawk 0 3 7112 Red-tailed Hawk 15 43 72 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 1 Golden Eagle 0 7 7 American Kestrel 1 190 1157 Merlin 2 11 79 Peregrine Falcon 0 25 42 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: 326 3589 14521 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Harold V. Observers: Cary Graham, Dave Brown, Ken Wootton, Su Ross-Redmond, Tom Bolohan Visitors: A few visitors today but unfortunately, not much to see. Thanks to Harold, Tom B, Tom S, Su, Ken and Carey for helping with todays count. Weather: The winds were promising BUT it was too damp and in fact it lightly rained on us a couple of times. There was a lot of cloud cover for most of the count period. Temp started at 9C and got to a high of 19C. Pressure was steady. Raptor Observations: Not much of a flight today with just 326 birds tallied the bulk of which were TVs (250) and Sharpies (51). Also noted were Osprey (2), singles of Bald Eagle and Am Kestrel, a couple of Merlins, a few Redtails (15) and N Harriers (4). Non-raptor Observations: On the other hand the passerines were really moving through with a ton of sparrows around the viewing platform and along the road including Lincoln's, Swamp, White-throated, White-crowned, Song and a few Juncos. Several warbler species were seen again today with multiple Northern Parula, male and female Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Palm and lots of Yellow-rumped. At least a couple of Blue-headed Vireos and a ton of RC Kinglets with a few GC Kinglets thrown in. Also starting to get small flocks of E. Bluebirds moving through. A very vocal Raven flew low right over the viewing platform headed west. Predictions: Watch the forecast for the coming week as the models are predicting NW, NE and E winds across the region for a few days. If this pans out the timing would be very good for the first good push of Redtails, Red-shoulders and Golden Eagles (we've already seen several go through). ======================================================================== 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