Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 03, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 2021 7179 14363 Osprey 0 1 12 Bald Eagle 6 26 278 Northern Harrier 12 64 382 Sharp-shinned Hawk 241 912 4758 Cooper's Hawk 14 43 135 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 11 70 71 Broad-winged Hawk 2 39 65698 Red-tailed Hawk 91 378 554 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 6 322 1714 Merlin 1 7 66 Peregrine Falcon 2 5 57 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 2407 9046 88088 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, Jim McCoy, John Hall, Juliette Herdman, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman Visitors: We thank all our visitors and counters including Noel, Juliette, Jim, Dana, John, Linda and Joe. We appreciate all the eyes we can get while these north winds persist! Weather: The weather today was mostly sunny with a few clouds. We had some pretty interesting rainbows today which only took up a little of our attention (I promise). The wind was northerly most of the day and weak, and by the afternoon it had turned southeast. A pleasant day on the tower! Raptor Observations: The majority of birds today were turkey vultures, easily countable as they were right over the tower. Most commonly, red-shouldered hawks, and red-tailed hawks flew with them and were easy to spot with the clear skies. Mid-morning we had lots of sharpies fly over the tower. Non-raptor Observations: We had a few new species seen today including white-crowned sparrow, American tree sparrow, and winter wren. There were more waterfowl on the marsh too, in open pools of water between the dying lilies. We had northern shoveler, gadwall, a trumpeter swan and others. Another good migration day for blue jays with 33,000 seen. Yellow-rumped warblers continue to be very abundant around the tower. https://ebird.org/checklist/S119917637 Predictions: Tomorrow's winds are said to have a northern component, and more turkey vultures should be flying over the tower, likely with red-shoulders and red-tails in tow. The sharp shinned hawks have been consistently flying close to the tower so come and get some great pictures! ======================================================================== 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