Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 13, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 1022 4645 5096 Osprey 0 6 66 Bald Eagle 8 40 80 Northern Harrier 4 82 471 Sharp-shinned Hawk 81 532 2286 Cooper's Hawk 1 34 77 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 7 10 Broad-winged Hawk 0 4 7113 Red-tailed Hawk 36 116 145 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 1 Golden Eagle 1 11 11 American Kestrel 4 200 1167 Merlin 1 12 80 Peregrine Falcon 2 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: 1161 5716 16648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:30:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9.5 hours Official Counter: Tom Bolohan Observers: Dave Brown, Harold V., Jason McGuire, Ken Wootton, Pete Read, Su Ross-Redmond, Tom Stewart Visitors: With it being a holiday today we had quite a few visitors and unfortunately, not a lot of birds for them to enjoy. Despite this fact, it was a great day to be out and enjoying the sunshine. Thanks to Tom B, Harold, Ken, Su, Tom S, Cary, Pete R and Jason for helping with today's count. Weather: A truly beautiful day with pure blue skies for the entire morning before our first clouds showed up. Eventually it clouded over almost entirely before breaking out once again. Temps were cool to start at 9C before climbing to 20C. Winds were a bit NE to start but then swung to E and to ESE before swinging back around to ENE at the end of the count period. Pressure was fairly steady for the day. Raptor Observations: It was a smaller than expected flight today with 1161 birds tallied... I'm sure due in part to the fact the wind never stuck to a more northerly direction so less birds got pushed down to the lake shore to come past the hawk watch. Most of the flight was early in the day and consisted of several good kettles of TVs basically right overhead. A nice Peregrine soared high up in front of us before screaming off westward once again while a 2nd Peregrine flew directly across in front of the viewing platform just above treetop height. Only a single Golden Eagle today and several Bald Eagles that were counted. Sharpies (81) and Redtails (36) were decent counts while just a single young Red-shouldered Hawk passed right overhead. Non-raptor Observations: A number of good non-raptors were seen today including warblers,,, Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow-rumped. Palm and at least a couple of Blue-headed Vireos. Woodpeckers... YB Sapsucker, Red-bellied, Pileated, N. Flicker, Downy and Hairy and quite a few Hermit Thrush, RC kinglet and GC Kinglet. A nice Brown Creeper was crawling up a tree right above the counters and RB Nuthatches continue to be seen and heard in good numbers in and around the viewing platform. Monarch count: 7 Predictions: The winds for Tuesday are forecast to be from the NW for the day which is usually our best wind direction for better flights. The thermal updraft velocities are not particularly high tomorrow so the birds may be crossing the area at a lower altitude that they were today. Looking further out... both Wed and Thu are forecast to have northerly winds as well which should help push more birds down to the lake shores. ======================================================================== 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