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Sep 27, 2021 · On The Wild Side: Ospreys among migrating raptors to be seen along Lake Ontario shore this fall – Beach Metro Community News. September 27, 2021. Photo above, an adult and juvenile osprey. The adult osprey has yellow eyes. Inset photo, an osprey soars over the Rosetta McClain Gardens on the shores of Lake Ontario and the Scarborough Bluffs.
Going around The Great Lakes in the spring, there are a couple of really good hawk migration spots to watch. Hawkwatches along the Lake Ontario to the north of us, because the hawks come up and they hit Lake Ontario, and they’ll fly over it, so they go around, and around the corner of those things, the hawks concentrate into large numbers.
- Jeff Szuc
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In November, many of the northern raptors that winter in the eastern Lake Ontario and western St. Lawrence region are settling in. Mouse raptors, including Rough-legged Hawk, Northern Harrier, and Short-eared Owl, will be passing through.
- Accounting For Redtails
- Why Nest early?
- The Span of Raptor Breeding Dates
What, you wonder, does this have to do with the hawk nesting and migration near the Golden Gate? We too are tracking the timing of raptor migrations past the Golden Gate each year. For each of the nineteen species of hawk, eagle, falcon, osprey, vulture, and harrier, we study the migratory peak dates annually, but also the first and final migration...
Some local raptor dates have been well documented by years of study in the Presidio of San Francisco conducted by Kim Meyer. Attempting to document all the raptor nests in this unusually urban national park, Meyer found that nesting Redtails had first eggs anytime from early to late March. Why so early? Could be a dozen reasons—it could be related ...
So, that’s the Red-tailed Hawk story—why local hawks are nesting as others of the same species are migrating by. But what about other species? When do they nest? Kim Meyer also documented Red-shouldered and Cooper’s hawk nests. Redshoulders were on eggs from late February through May, while Cooper’s started about a month later, being on eggs from l...
Jul 20, 2021 · The new RPI analyses examine the last decade of migration counts for 26 raptor species from 76 sites stretching from Panama to Canada. One finding reveals that one of the most-commonly observed migrants, the sharp-shinned hawk, has declined at 47% of count sites.
Did you know Sonoma County sits below a great aerial flyway for migrating hawks, eagles, falcons and other raptors and winter is one of the best times to spot raptors in the county’s parks? Here are some of the common raptors to watch for and the Sonoma County Regional Parks where you’re most likely to see them.
Feb 9, 2017 · February 09, 2017. • 9 min read. With outstretched talons, a lone golden eagle dropped from the sky at a speed that must have approached 60 miles an hour. It sped towards the rock-spattered ...
