Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 12, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 1618 23880 24738 Osprey 4 8 33 Bald Eagle 10 37 129 Northern Harrier 0 99 341 Sharp-shinned Hawk 39 1569 3960 Cooper's Hawk 4 79 141 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 46 46 Broad-winged Hawk 0 861 25771 Red-tailed Hawk 4 163 307 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 12 392 1613 Merlin 0 12 93 Peregrine Falcon 0 14 35 Unknown Accipiter 0 3 5 Unknown Buteo 0 6 7 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 4 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 1691 27171 57226 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Hugh Kent Observers: Dan Lumm, Donald Pye, Elizabeth Kent Visitors: Thanks to observers Don Pye, Ray Field and Dan Lumm for their great spotting. Thanks to John Barnes, Fran and Brian from Kingsville and Daniel Huang and Emma Rien from Toronto and all the others for visiting the tower and taking an interest. Weather: A cold and windy day on the tower, with the temperature as low as 6 degC and the wind gusting up to about 25km/h. The wind was generally from the SW, making it hard for Raptors to move west. Raptor Observations: The day started slowly, but from mid morning there was a steady flow of Turkey Vultures with over 1600 by the end of the day. We saw a good movement of Bald Eagles finishing with 10 for the day. Other numbers were low, especially Buteos, probably reluctant to fly far in a significant headwind. Non-raptor Observations: Better numbers of ducks on the marsh today, especially Gadwall (164). Boneparte's Gulls (146) continued to come into the marsh and it was great to see a good number of Chimney Swifts (154) migrating out of the cold weather. Sadly not many songbirds today, probably suppressed by the wind. Ebird list at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60565593 Predictions: Forecast is for a warmer day with slightly lower wind speed, but still from the SW. Hopefully we will continue to see more numbers of Turkey Vultures and the Buteos may be more likely to fly. However with winds continuing in the SW large numbers may be unlikely. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Hugh Kent (Hughnkent@gmail.com) 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