Back up to the Straits for a couple of hours on Friday afternoon for some more raptor watching. Unfortunately, the wind had not shifted to the south as forecast so I did not see the large numbers of last week. I think I've now got the differences between a Buteo and an Accipiter, Red-tailed Hawks are pretty obvious from below if the light is right. We had one red tail fly low and slow right over our heads. The official six hour count for the day by Steve Baker was 174 birds heading north across the Straits (as compared with 602 for the previous Friday):
59 Turkey Vultures
2 Bald Eagles
4 Golden Eagles
1 Northern Harrier
26 Sharp-shinned Hawks
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
6 Rough-legged Hawks
71 Red-tailed Hawks
2 American Kestrels
1 Peregrine Falcon
For access to the North American Hawk Count database go to http://www.hawkcount.org/
Tried a bit more digiscoping on the using my Alpen 20-60x80 spotting scope, Alpen's (well made) bracket adapter and my little point and shoot camera but the results were not encouraging even for close, static and therefore very easy subjects like this Morning Dove:

This Northern Flicker was about 100 yards away and relatively well lit and static. Even with a stack of post image enhancement, a very poor result:

There's no getting around the fact that for serious bird photography I'll need a serious big lens for the Canon which will have to wait.