Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 25, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 826 34848 42032 Osprey 0 5 16 Bald Eagle 0 34 286 Northern Harrier 10 316 634 Sharp-shinned Hawk 47 3083 6929 Cooper's Hawk 4 154 246 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 95 96 Broad-winged Hawk 0 43 65702 Red-tailed Hawk 14 657 833 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 3 686 2078 Merlin 1 51 110 Peregrine Falcon 2 49 101 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: 908 40025 119067 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Michael Arthurs Visitors: Thank you to all our visitors on this beautiful day including Larry and Paul. Special thanks to observer Michael Arthur’s for the extra eyes and company. Weather: Today was a pleasant day on the tower. It was partly cloudy and warm, with south east winds all day Raptor Observations: Luckily, we didn’t have any backwards migrating turkey vultures today. We did have good numbers to the north considering the southeast winds. We had a great, long view of a gorgeous red-shouldered hawk in the sun, right next to the tower. In the afternoon, red tailed hawks increased. There were spurts of sharp shinned hawks which came in groups of one to four, with long periods in between. We had a handful of harriers throughout the day, a couple of kestrels, an early morning Merlin, and a couple of peregrines. Non-raptor Observations: Once again this morning, huge murmurations of starlings emerged from trees all around the tower. Mixed with grackles, red-winged blackbirds and rusty blackbirds, the noise of them all was incredible. We had less species than yesterday but still lots of sparrow activity. Numbers of waterfowl on the marsh are still great. The large groups of gadwall, American coot, etc. were interspersed with beautiful northern pintail, green winged teal and American wigeon. Numbers of yellowlegs on the muddy banks remain the same. https://ebird.org/checklist/S121311393 Predictions: The weather tomorrow looks cooler, with chances of rain all day. The wind is predicted to be south, changing to west in the afternoon. This may bring in more hawks than the last couple of days. Especially sharp shinned hawks and falcons. We will likely see the usual Turkey vultures and a few buteos, rain depending. ======================================================================== 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