Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 27, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 77 77 Osprey 6 50 52 Bald Eagle 3 27 30 Northern Harrier 20 311 314 Sharp-shinned Hawk 89 1308 1310 Cooper's Hawk 5 29 31 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 0 6943 6947 Red-tailed Hawk 1 12 12 Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 126 768 771 Merlin 8 54 54 Peregrine Falcon 3 16 16 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 1 1 Total: 261 9598 9617 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Dave Brown, Harold V., Mac McAlpine, Su Ross-Redmond Visitors: A ton of visitors today with it being Day 1 of the open house weekend events at Hawk Cliff. A huge thanks to everyone that helped with spotting and tallying up the birds today... Tom B, Harold V, Su, Mac, Tom S and many others on the viewing platform. Weather: Winds were light from the SW and SSW for the day providing a bit of lift along the cliff edge. Some nice cloud in the area but more high level rather than cumulus. Temp continues to be way too warm starting at 14C and getting to a high of 26C. Raptor Observations: A very similar flight to yesterday with a total of 261 birds. Almost all of the birds were either right along the cliff riding the updraft or just inland a bit. The bulk of today's flight was Sharpies (89), Am Kestrels (126) and N Harriers (20). There were smaller numbers of other species including Osprey (6), Bald Eagle (3) that we figured were migrants versus local family groups, Cooper's Hawks (5), a lone Redtail, Merlins (8) and a highlight was the Peregrines (3). Non-raptor Observations: Definitely not as many passerines on the move today. However, the Blue Jays continued to push through in good numbers for the first 3 hours of the morning. Monarch Count: 300+ today. Many visitors commented that there seemed to be quite a few flying past the viewing platform. Predictions: The forecasts have been a bit off for the past several days... BUT if the wind forecast holds with NW winds for the bulk of Sunday then it may bring more birds down to the lake shore and result in a bigger flight. Fingers crossed. ======================================================================== 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