Holiday Beach Migration Observatory Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 05, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 200 40963 Osprey 0 0 85 Bald Eagle 0 1 98 Northern Harrier 0 18 727 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 17 9444 Cooper's Hawk 0 8 703 Northern Goshawk 0 0 35 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 591 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 7965 Red-tailed Hawk 0 24 4061 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 45 Golden Eagle 0 2 35 American Kestrel 0 0 2030 Merlin 0 0 116 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 53 Unknown 0 0 103 Total: 1 270 67054 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:30:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Bob Pettit Observers: Visitors: None Weather: Overcast, south wind 3 mph, temp aprox 14 C. Raptor Observations: Two raptors:One migrant Sharpie and one resident female Harrier. Non-raptor Observations: Many blackbird types around tower and woods (bush). Rusty-blackbirds in high numbers. These birds were around all day and seemed not to want to go west and south but milled around feeding in the marsh and bathing in the shallow pond in front of the tower. Estimate that 10,000 'blackbirds' (mostly starlings) were seen. Predictions: I was unable to enter the date on Saturday since my car was broken into Saturday night in Windsor while at a banquet and my hawk data notebook, ipod, camera, and binocs were taken. The data notebook and ipod have been recovered by Windsor police this Sunday AM. Corrected weather data will be edited after retrieving it this week. B.P. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bob Pettit (redknot@earthlink.net) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/