Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 19, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 2 840 13591 Osprey 0 0 61 Bald Eagle 11 69 316 Northern Harrier 17 71 661 Sharp-shinned Hawk 10 174 5585 Cooper's Hawk 2 39 238 American Goshawk 1 5 9 Red-shouldered Hawk 8 437 619 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 32328 Red-tailed Hawk 61 1796 2852 Rough-legged Hawk 0 4 18 Golden Eagle 13 97 121 American Kestrel 0 3 1985 Merlin 3 14 98 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 56 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 128 3551 58538 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Dave Brown Observers: Chris Burris, Ken Wootton, Mac McAlpine, Mark Cunningham, Matt Oswald, Ronnie Goodhand Visitors: Nice to have the Halton North Peel Naturalist Club visiting the site today for their outing along with a few others. Glad to see that they saw most of the Golden Eagles which was one of their hoped for species. A big thanks to them and the counters and observers for helping get a count done today. Weather: Great moderate NW winds all day with mostly pure blue skies... only a short timeframe late morning where we had some clouds that formed only to completely disappear again. Temps were colder starting at 2C and getting to a high of just 5C. The humidity really dropped quickly as the morning progressed. Raptor Observations: Not a huge flight with just 128 birds today but it was the quality that was impressive. We had another 13 Golden Eagles today with several right overhead providing some great looks and photo ops for the visitors. Unfortunately, with the pure blue skies I'm pretty sure we simply missed a lot of the buteos and accipiters crossing through today. Non-raptor Observations: I had a Common Raven that flew past early in the morning along with the local Pileated Woodpecker and flocks of Purple Finch, Horned Larks, Am Pipits, Pine Siskins, Cedar Waxwings and Am Goldfinch. Also noted were a couple of Golden-crowned kinglets and WB Nuthatches. for the rest of the non-raptors check out the number of eBird checklists for the Hawk Cliff hotspot. Predictions: Monday has NE to E winds forecast with a bit more cloud which would help a lot with spotting the birds. I suspect there will be a similar flight as we had today with perhaps a few more buteos. ======================================================================== 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