Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 24, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 385 34022 41206 Osprey 2 5 16 Bald Eagle 1 34 286 Northern Harrier 15 306 624 Sharp-shinned Hawk 109 3036 6882 Cooper's Hawk 12 150 242 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 94 95 Broad-winged Hawk 0 43 65702 Red-tailed Hawk 14 643 819 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 7 683 2075 Merlin 1 50 109 Peregrine Falcon 1 47 99 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: 547 39117 118159 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, John Hall, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman Visitors: Thank you to all our visitors today including students and teachers from a local Montessori and visitors all the way from Timmins. Thank you to our observers Noel, John, and Linda for all your extra help today. Weather: Today's weather was warm, clear skies with southeast winds. It was a very pleasant day on the tower with a mild breeze. Raptor Observations: Well... today was interesting. We had our usual migrants, plenty of sharpies, some harriers, and red-tailed hawks, although in lower numbers than yesterday. This is usually to be expected with southeast winds. Coopers hawks numbers are still increasing from the previous month, and we had a peregrine, merlin and a few kestrels. The interesting part is that in the late morning we had almost 3000 turkey vultures emerge from the north and travel east along the lake, right over our heads. The complete opposite direction! We did not count these birds as migrating, but added them to our eBird list. Non-raptor Observations: Today was filled with non-raptor species. Over 40 were counted by 10 am. Huge murmurations of starlings flew right over the tower early in the morning with large groups of grackles and red-winged blackbirds. There were many waterfowl on the marsh today, with increasing numbers of ring-necked duck and American coot, along with green-winged teal, and a first of the season horned grebe. Sparrows stole the show today with 7 species including chipping, swamp and field sparrow. https://ebird.org/checklist/S121260038 Predictions: Tomorrow looks similar to today with warmer temperatures and clear skies. We are very interested in what the turkey vulture count will look like tomorrow. South winds may bring more birds, and hopefully not so many east flying vultures. ======================================================================== 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