Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 11, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 241 17541 24725 Osprey 0 2 13 Bald Eagle 0 32 284 Northern Harrier 12 130 448 Sharp-shinned Hawk 63 1377 5223 Cooper's Hawk 2 64 156 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 87 88 Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701 Red-tailed Hawk 5 477 653 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 9 376 1768 Merlin 4 16 75 Peregrine Falcon 2 21 73 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: 338 20167 99209 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Claude Radley, Donny Moore, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent Visitors: We thank all our visitors today including Conal, Claude, Larry and Donny. We always appreciate the company, on busy days as well as the slow ones. Weather: The weather today was beautiful, warm, sunny and slightly breezy. Too bad the breeze was south. We still had a great day! Raptor Observations: Despite the wind, we saw a nice variety of raptors today. This morning started out with sharpies and two gray ghost northern harriers flying together over the beach. There were more harriers throughout the day with merlins, kestrels and a couple peregrines as well. Buteos were down today with only 5 red-tailed hawks seen. Turkey vultures were far to the north today and we counted 241. Non-raptor Observations: Today, again, was dominated by yellow-rumped warblers around the tower. All of the other warblers were absent except for palm and blackpoll. We had four different sparrow species. There were no new species seen today, however the number of waterfowl on the marsh is rapidly increasing. https://ebird.org/checklist/S120507266 Predictions: Tomorrow will have strong south winds and possibly some rain in the afternoon. raptors might be flying north again tomorrow however we should see sharpies, kestrels and the odd harrier close to the tower. ======================================================================== 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