Outdoor Ontario

Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: stvgarrett on September 15, 2011, 01:31:31 PM

Title: broadwinged hawks on the move
Post by: stvgarrett on September 15, 2011, 01:31:31 PM

more than 550 as of 12:30 at the high park hawk watch.  good conditions should persist through tomorrow .

Title:
Post by: stvgarrett on September 15, 2011, 08:26:10 PM

The Hawk Watch at High Park is located just north of the Grenadier Restaurant's parking lot. (Look for the green arrow on the map), and there are usually experienced and helpful observers there from before 9 till late in the afternoon, from early September till November:
http://g.co/maps/2d497 (http://g.co/maps/2d497)

Title:
Post by: stvgarrett on September 15, 2011, 08:35:29 PM

I see they posted the total for the day on ONTBIRDS, 1,681 raptors including 1,564 Broad-wings.
http://ontbirds.ca/pipermail/birdalert_ ... 28148.html (http://ontbirds.ca/pipermail/birdalert_ontbirds.ca/Week-of-Mon-20110912/028148.html)
Must have been a great afternoon. Not quite as intense as the count at Holiday Beach: 10,400 Broad-winged Hawks today! But a heck of a lot closer to the TTC.

Title:
Post by: BoboBird on September 16, 2011, 01:05:31 AM

Excuse my ignorance but where is Holiday Beach exactly?

Thanks.

Title:
Post by: stvgarrett on September 16, 2011, 09:14:29 AM

It's at the easternmost edge of Lake Erie. Long drive, unfortunately.

here's the web page for the Holiday Beach Migration Observatory
http://hbmo.org/ (http://hbmo.org/)
which is found in Holiday Beach Conservation Area:
http://g.co/maps/4raj7 (http://g.co/maps/4raj7)

Title:
Post by: BoboBird on September 16, 2011, 12:22:25 PM

Thanks stvgarrett.

The TTC comment led me think it was somewhere closer to me then High Park. hehe

Title:
Post by: stvgarrett on September 16, 2011, 02:36:31 PM

spent most of my lunch hour at High Park again today - over 5,500 Broad Wings today as of about 1:45. Pretty amazing sight to see them streaming by. The weather is changing, winds out of the east by tomorrow afternoon so if you want to see them, today or possibly tomorrow morning is your chance.

ps. sorry I misled you bobobird :)

Title:
Post by: BoboBird on September 16, 2011, 03:18:26 PM

Would love to go but am tied up all this week :)

Anyone take pics of this? It must be amazing seeing the armada going over...

Title:
Post by: thouc on September 16, 2011, 05:12:24 PM

I popped in for 10 min around 3:30 pm this afternoon. A kettle of about 25 Broad-winged Hawks passed by, but very far away. They mentioned that about 9000 Broad-wings had passed during the day.

Title:
Post by: stvgarrett on September 16, 2011, 05:20:49 PM

I'm not sure it's the kind of thing  that lends itself to photos - the birds are high and can be pretty spread out.  You get the occasional bird that's low enough for a decent photo if you have a zoom lens and you're quick on the draw, but most of them are too small.