Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 28, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 3490 43949 51133 Osprey 0 5 16 Bald Eagle 5 47 299 Northern Harrier 13 341 659 Sharp-shinned Hawk 37 3161 7007 Cooper's Hawk 11 183 275 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 55 177 178 Broad-winged Hawk 0 43 65702 Red-tailed Hawk 709 1606 1782 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 7 10 10 American Kestrel 0 688 2080 Merlin 0 52 111 Peregrine Falcon 1 54 106 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: 4328 50318 129360 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, Jacob Stasso, Larry Ludwicki, Liz Kent, Michelle Mastellotto, Peter Veighey Visitors: Thank you to all our amazing observers today including Michelle, Jacob, Larry, and Peter. It was extremely helpful today to have you all! Weather: The weather today started off cooler and cloudy, but quickly cleared up and warmed slightly. The wind started out northeast for about half the day and switched to southeast. Raptor Observations: WOW. 7 golden eagles! Today was a huge day. We had an incredible show of golden eagles over the tower, a few hanging around for a good view. The turkey vulture and red tailed hawk count was equally as amazing with 3490 and 709 respectively. There were many, many buteos travelling with turkey vultures today, including 77 red-shouldered hawks. There were also a handful of migrating bald eagles. There have been less sharpies than usual with 37, and. 13 harriers. Non-raptor Observations: Most of our attention was on the migrating raptors today. There are increasing numbers of waterfowl on the marsh again today, gadwall and coot in highest numbers. There were a few horned grebe on the lakeside too. 13 bald eagles were playing around. in the marsh this morning, a higher count than usual. Evening grosbeaks flew over the tower early this morning along with horned larks. Bluebirds were present in good numbers flying over as well. https://ebird.org/checklist/S121459467 Predictions: Tomorrow looks promising for another good, migration day although the winds will mostly be south. There should be lots of migrating red-tails, turkey vultures and possibly more golden eagles. ======================================================================== 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