Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 26, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 2356 16053 16504 Osprey 0 7 67 Bald Eagle 36 128 168 Northern Harrier 12 200 589 Sharp-shinned Hawk 83 1195 2949 Cooper's Hawk 26 139 182 American Goshawk 1 5 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 53 133 136 Broad-winged Hawk 3 8 7117 Red-tailed Hawk 339 831 860 Rough-legged Hawk 4 9 10 Golden Eagle 16 61 61 American Kestrel 3 246 1213 Merlin 0 30 98 Peregrine Falcon 0 27 44 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: 2932 19072 30004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Chris Burris, Dave Brown, Jude Szabo, Ken Wootton, Pete Read, Ronnie Goodhand, Tom Stewart Visitors: Tons of visitors at the viewing platform today with a large group from the OFO (lead by Pete Read) and then a smaller group from Kitchener-Waterloo. Add to that several others that were there on their own and it was a full house for sure! There were lots of great questions today from visitors and we had fun answering them while at the same time enjoying the really good flight for the day. Thanks to everyone who helped spot the birds in the pure blue skies! Weather: Not a cloud in the sky all day and light to moderate NE winds made for a very nice hawk watching day... but also VERY difficult to spot the birds as they passed high overhead. Temps were quite cold to start at -1C and getting to a high of 11C. The whole region is under a high pressure system. Raptor Observations: We had an awesome flight of raptors today... and they started early with some nice looking Rough-legged Hawks (including both light and dark morph birds) that crossed just above tree top level and not far N of the viewing platform. A great looking young American Goshawk came right along the cliff edge providing some excellent looks and photo ops. Another interesting bird was a dark morph (likely adult western calurus ssp.) Redtail that flew past providing some photo ops (see eBird checklists). And finally, the target species for the very large number of visitors was the Golden Eagles (16) several of which flew directly overhead and not too high up providing fantastic views. Lots of other species as well with lots of adult accipiters now moving through along with buteos like Redtails and Red-shoulders and even 3 vert late Broad-winged Hawks. Only 3 Kestrels from the falcons side. Non-raptor Observations: There were lots of eBird checklists submitted to the Hawk Cliff hotspot for today so check them out for a look at the non-raptors seen for the day. ======================================================================== 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