Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 3212 38537 39395 Osprey 0 10 35 Bald Eagle 9 73 165 Northern Harrier 6 128 370 Sharp-shinned Hawk 44 2074 4465 Cooper's Hawk 5 122 184 Northern Goshawk 0 3 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 3 55 55 Broad-winged Hawk 0 863 25773 Red-tailed Hawk 31 277 421 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 2 440 1661 Merlin 0 19 100 Peregrine Falcon 1 23 44 Unknown Accipiter 0 3 5 Unknown Buteo 0 7 8 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 4 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 3313 42636 72691 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Maryse Gagné Observers: Dave Martin, Dorothy McLeer, Elizabeth Kent, Hugh Kent, Larry Ludwicki, Linda Wladarski Visitors: Thank you to all our visitors and counters who came down today! Thanks to Larry Ludwicki, Hugh and Liz Kent, Neil and Anne, Noel and Juliette (who came twice in one day!), Dave Martin and Lind Wladarski, John Barnes, Lee, Don and April from LaSalle, Gaspar Horvath and Dorothy McClear. We appreciate all of your help spotting raptor and very distant kettles of Turkey Vultures. Weather: Really gorgeous day on the tower with light winds from the North-West all morning. Winds shifted to the South-West around noon, and after that, not much flew over the tower. Not an extensive cloud cover for most of day, so raptors flew quite high above us. Raptor Observations: We had a very good morning counting raptors, when the winds were blowing from the North-West. Red-tailed Hawks (31), Turkey Vultures and Red-shouldered Hawks (3) all flew very high above us late in the morning accompanied by Sharp-shinned Hawks (44). After the winds shifted to the South-West, we did not count many raptors. Only in the last hour did we count 1,288 Turkey Vultures, bringing our total count to 3,212 TVs for the day. Non-raptor Observations: Many non-raptors species flew around us today, including our first Dark-eyed Juncos, White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows and an Orange-crowned Warbler. One of our highlight came from a Tundra Swan flying over the marsh, hopefully we'll get more soon! Our usual migrants still came in big numbers; Starlings (256), Blue Jays (2,240), Goldfinches (112), and Red-winged Blackbird (1,320). Lastly, we are still counting high numbers of ducks on the marsh including Wood Ducks (4), Gadwall (180), Pintails (9), Wigeon (94), Ring-necked Duck (398) and Green-winged Teal (2). Predictions: Tomorrow we are expecting winds to blow from the South and South-East, with some clouds for most of the day. We hope to see more Turkey Vultures, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Northern Harriers. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Maryse Gagné (maryse.gagne35@gmail.com) Holiday Beach Hawk Watch information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ More site information at hawkcount.org: http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100