Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 19, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 11 247 17111 Osprey 0 1 68 Bald Eagle 17 93 287 Northern Harrier 9 64 661 Sharp-shinned Hawk 7 75 3038 Cooper's Hawk 11 40 232 American Goshawk 0 2 7 Red-shouldered Hawk 24 68 218 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 7118 Red-tailed Hawk 258 641 1612 Rough-legged Hawk 0 3 13 Golden Eagle 6 45 112 American Kestrel 0 2 1215 Merlin 2 10 109 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 47 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 Gyrfalcon 1 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 346 1293 31850 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 5 hours Official Counter: Mac McAlpine Observers: Dave Brown Visitors: Just a couple of visitors (Rob C and Gie) helping out today. Thanks to Mac for keeping the count today. Weather: Bright blue skies with some very high thin cloud. Lots of aircraft contrails to use a reference points too. Winds were moderate to light from the NE then backing a bit to the N. Temps were cool starting at -3C and getting to a high of 4C. Raptor Observations: A pretty good flight today with a total of 346 raptors tallied. Lots of Redtails (258) and a few Red-shoulders (24) along with another small number of Golden Eagles (6) including one with a unique looking asymmetric under wing pattern (right wing more like sub-adult bird with very little white showing and left wing more juv/imm like with good sized patch of white showing). The official counter also spotted a low flying Gyrfalcon speeding over just above tree top height which is the first in a very long time at Hawk Cliff. Non-raptor Observations: A couple of good sized flocks of SACR including one with over 100 birds and all headed W just inland of the lake shore. Several CORA (7) which is likely a family group as there've been numerous sightings at this location of them going W and E at times. A young YBSA continued right in and around the viewing platform. Predictions: Lots of sunshine forecast for Thursday but crappy S to SE wind direction so the flight will likely be spread inland away from 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