Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 17, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 130 9535 9986 Osprey 0 7 67 Bald Eagle 0 61 101 Northern Harrier 5 149 538 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 837 2591 Cooper's Hawk 0 59 102 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 35 38 Broad-winged Hawk 0 5 7114 Red-tailed Hawk 0 347 376 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 1 Golden Eagle 0 26 26 American Kestrel 1 233 1200 Merlin 0 21 89 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: 137 11342 22274 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 12:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 3 hours Official Counter: Su Ross-Redmond Observers: Visitors: Had company of Deb, from London, (on her lunch break) A couple from Port Colborne for short time and a younger couple that didn't stay longer than 10 minutes, but both couples did have a bit of a walk on the trail by Auzin's garden. Thanks to Su for giving it a shot to get a count done today. Weather: Winds SE to start switching to SW to then finally to WSW. Heavy cloud then thinning with small patches of blue. Temp started at 13C and hit 16C by the end of the count period. Raptor Observations: Not many birds actually moving today and likely due to the not so favourable weather conditions. A total of just 137 birds for the day with mostly TVs (130) and a few raptors... N Harriers (5) and single Sharpie and Am Kestrel scattered across the 3 hours. Non-raptor Observations: Not much in the way of non-raptor activity around ... White throat calling, House Wren, Red-bellied WP and a couple of Sandhill Cranes. Monarch count: 8 ======================================================================== 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