Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 10, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 3241 17300 24484 Osprey 0 2 13 Bald Eagle 1 32 284 Northern Harrier 11 118 436 Sharp-shinned Hawk 43 1314 5160 Cooper's Hawk 0 62 154 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 3 87 88 Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701 Red-tailed Hawk 24 472 648 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 15 367 1759 Merlin 1 12 71 Peregrine Falcon 1 19 71 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 1 1 Total: 3340 19829 98871 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, Liz Kent Visitors: We had a great amount of visitors for thanksgiving day. Thank you to all our interested visitors including Suzanne, Jeff, and Conal. Weather: The weather today was sunny and warm with good visibility. The wind started out north in the morning, but quickly changed to south throughout the rest of the day. Raptor Observations: This morning while we had north winds, we counted around 3000 turkey vultures coming up over the treeline to the east. The streams of vultures were HUGE! With them, there were red-tailed hawks and red-shouldered hawks. There was a good amount of kestrels today, totalling 15. There was also 43 sharp-shinned hawks and 11 harriers including two gray ghosts. We also observed migrating bald eagles, a merlin and a peregrine falcon. Non-raptor Observations: There were a good number of species seen today at 56. Most of the passerines in the trees around the tower were yellow-rumped warblers. The number of warblers is decreasing however we saw a northern parula and a first of the season orange crowned warbler. Higher numbers of wading birds are arriving on the marsh too. We observed another new species today: American golden plover. They were flying over the tower in a group of 16. https://ebird.org/checklist/S120410215 Predictions: Tomorrow will be sunny and warm like today, with southerly winds. Most of the raptors and vultures will probably be north of the tower, but we will try our best to count them nonetheless! There should be plenty of non-raptor species to observe around the tower. The warm weather has caused an increase in small insects which many birds have been feeding on. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Nicole Shangi (nicole.shangi@outlook.com) Holiday Beach Hawk Watch information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ More site information at hawkcount.org: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100 Count data submitted via Dunkadoo - Project info at: https://dunkadoo.org/explore/hbmo/hbmo-hawk-watch-fall-2022