Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 18, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 0 0 Osprey 3 53 55 Bald Eagle 4 25 25 Northern Harrier 6 171 171 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 682 685 Cooper's Hawk 0 18 18 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 17879 17879 Red-tailed Hawk 0 7 7 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 39 684 693 Merlin 6 40 41 Peregrine Falcon 7 9 9 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: 73 19568 19583 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 10 hours Official Counter: Dave Brown Observers: Catherine Manschot, Michael Sandell, Tom Bolohan, Tom Stewart Visitors: Lots including 2 larger groups.... one from the KW Field Naturalists and the other a group involved in an online raptor ID course that came to put their ID skills to the test in the field... and then several other visitors as well. Weather: SW winds that started out moderate and then got stronger throughout the day. Unfortunately, we ended up with rain in the middle of the day which pretty much halted the birds for over an hour. Pretty warm again with temps from 20C to 24C. Raptor Observations: Not a big flight today with just 73 raptors tallied BUT a bit of a surprise with 7 Peregrines cruising through much to the delight of all the visitors. With the SW winds we also had N. Harriers, Am. Kestrels and Osprey passing through on the updraft at the cliff and a good number of Bald Eagles working back and forth along the cliff putting on a good show. Non-raptor Observations: Please see my eBird checklist for other species seen today: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118999295 Predictions: Monday's forecast is calling for a chance of rain / t-storms and W winds which will slow down any kind of migration. Keep an eye towards the end of the week (Thu / Fri) as longer range is showing possibly a couple days of northerly winds which is likely to prompt some migration movement. ======================================================================== 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