Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 06, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 374 8697 15881 Osprey 0 1 12 Bald Eagle 0 29 281 Northern Harrier 1 69 387 Sharp-shinned Hawk 28 1011 4857 Cooper's Hawk 1 47 139 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 79 80 Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701 Red-tailed Hawk 0 405 581 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 1 American Kestrel 5 328 1720 Merlin 0 8 67 Peregrine Falcon 1 9 61 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: 410 10727 89769 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, John Hall, Juliette Herdman, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman Visitors: We thank all our visitors to the tower today including Noel, Juliette, John, Linda, Rick and Steve. Weather: Another warm and slow day on the tower. Winds were from the southwest all day and very light. Sunny and about 27C. Raptor Observations: Today was slow again for raptors, however better than yesterday. We observed turkey vulture kettles far off to the north. An early morning peregrine went after a few blue jays right next to the tower. There were a couple harriers and kestrels as well as a handful of sharpies. Non-raptor Observations: The sky was full of starlings today over the marsh. There were also many gulls and swallows about. The warmth must have caused lots of insects to emerge for all these birds feast on. We didn't see any new species today, however we had almost 60 pelicans fly over the marsh! Two even landed in the marsh for a long while. There is a small chance they may still be there tomorrow morning. Blue jays are slowing down with just under 8000 counted. https://ebird.org/checklist/S120018440 Predictions: Tomorrow looks promising! A cool day with stronger north winds should bring some larger numbers of hawks. We should be seeing turkey vultures, red-tailed hawks and red-shouldered hawks, and were crossing our fingers for another golden eagle! ======================================================================== 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