Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 04, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 6817 7948 8806 Osprey 2 2 27 Bald Eagle 9 9 101 Northern Harrier 25 65 307 Sharp-shinned Hawk 343 953 3344 Cooper's Hawk 22 35 97 Northern Goshawk 1 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 9 10 10 Broad-winged Hawk 488 778 25688 Red-tailed Hawk 29 31 175 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 93 341 1562 Merlin 7 10 91 Peregrine Falcon 2 8 29 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 2 Unknown Buteo 0 0 1 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 4 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 7847 10191 40246 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Hugh Kent Observers: Dan Lumm, Elizabeth Kent, Jim McCoy Visitors: Big thanks to Dan Lumm and Jim McCoy for assisting in observation and identification. Thanks to all our other visitors for their good spotting - Len, Brian and Earl, Dave and Robin, Dan, Diana and Carol, Ed and Heide and Tara. Thanks to Bob Hall-Brooks from the Lake Banding station for bringing a magnificent hatch year female Red-shouldered Hawk to the Tower that was adopted by Hugh Kent. Weather: Colder day with a brisk north wind, temperature only reaching a high of 13.8 degC. Started with a clear sky gradually becoming overcast mid afternoon Raptor Observations: Exciting day with a pretty constant stream of Turkey Vultures and good numbers of Broad-winged Hawks. Also we had a greater variety of species with 13 out of the regular 15 species seen. The icing on the cake was a late day Northern Goshawk, the first of the season. Non-raptor Observations: Conversely to yesterday it was very quiet on the non raptor front. Very few songbirds, species of note were 8130 Blue Jays, 496 Tree Swallows and 154 American Goldfinch. Ebird list at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60351110 Predictions: Tomorrow wind veers from NE to SE in the earlier part of the day. Temperatures are predicted to be a bit higher. Hopefully the Turkey Vulture migration will continue but it will be interesting to see how the numbers change with the different wind direction. As always hoping for more Northern Harriers, Sharp-shins and Kestrels with a smattering of other Buteos. ======================================================================== 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