Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 29, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 98 537 537 Osprey 1 25 25 Bald Eagle 0 91 91 Northern Harrier 35 211 211 Sharp-shinned Hawk 103 2282 2282 Cooper's Hawk 2 59 59 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 24812 24812 Red-tailed Hawk 0 138 138 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 110 1196 1196 Merlin 1 81 81 Peregrine Falcon 1 21 21 Unknown Accipiter 0 2 2 Unknown Buteo 0 1 1 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 4 4 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 1 Total: 351 29461 29461 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff Observers: Elizabeth Kent, Hugh Kent, Jim McCoy, Olga Klekner Visitors: The weather kept most visitors away today, but Baxter and Kayla from Toronto braved the weather, and a couple of other families as well as a young couple from Peterborough. Weather: Completely overcast with a slight haze in the morning that turned to drizzle by 11am, and rain by noon. N and NE winds steady at 11 to 13 kmph were perfect for hawk migration. It would have been nice to have some sunshine though. Raptor Observations: We logged 8 species of Raptors today with American Kestrel taking 1st place in numbers. The winds were favorable for the entire count, but the clouds and eventual rain did not help the birds today. We did not see any migrating Eagles today, only a couple of the locals hunting the marsh. With all the cloud cover and drizzle we would have expected the birds to be flying low today, but instead they were at times very high. Non-raptor Observations: WWe logged 8 species of Raptors today with American Kestrel taking 1st place in numbers. The winds were favorable for the entire count, but the clouds and eventual rain did not help the birds today. We did not see any migrating Eagles today, only a couple of the locals hunting the marsh. With all the cloud cover and drizzle we would have expected the birds to be flying low today, but instead they were at times very high. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bob Pettit (redknot@earthlink.net) 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