Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 21, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 773 29945 37129 Osprey 0 2 13 Bald Eagle 0 33 285 Northern Harrier 10 251 569 Sharp-shinned Hawk 172 2628 6474 Cooper's Hawk 8 116 208 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 94 95 Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701 Red-tailed Hawk 16 590 766 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 16 647 2039 Merlin 4 43 102 Peregrine Falcon 1 45 97 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: 1001 34440 113482 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Craig Evans, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Michelle Mastellotto Visitors: Thank you to all our visitors to the tower today including Jade, Cole, Larry, Karen, and previous hawk counter, Craig Evans. We were happy to meet some new people on such a nice day. Thank you to Michelle for her help observing today! Weather: Today was a gorgeous day on the tower. Warm, sunny weather with mainly southwest winds. There were plenty of birds to see today. Raptor Observations: The southwest winds caused many turkey vultures to fly to the north. Many sharpies flew very close to the tower as they often do, and we counted 172. Cooper's hawk counts were up today with eight, and we also had a nice migration of red-tailed hawks, with 16. There were more harriers today, although less than the last two days. We had a beautiful red-shouldered hawk fly right over the tower at close range, giving us a good long look. Non-raptor Observations: There were many more non-raptor species today than the rest of the week, even a few monarchs! There were many species of waterfowl on the marsh today, with gadwall, coot, northern shoveler and pintail close to the tower. Many yellowlegs were present today too, with a few pectoral sandpipers hiding in between. We are still seeing large numbers of northern flicker and yellow-rumped warbler around the tower, and we spotted a red-headed woodpecker flying over. Just as we were about to leave today, a group of 11 tundra swan flew over the marsh, first if the season! https://ebird.org/checklist/S121061282 Predictions: This weekend looks to be very pleasant on the tower. There are still no north winds in the forecast, however as evidence today, we are seeing plenty of birds. There will likely be more turkey vultures to the north, sharpies, harriers and red-tails. Extra eyes are always appreciated even on southerly wind days, especially someone to catch the sneaky merlins! ======================================================================== 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