Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 3582 30039 32890 Osprey 0 18 75 Bald Eagle 0 37 129 Northern Harrier 14 178 338 Sharp-shinned Hawk 72 1718 4146 Cooper's Hawk 3 62 123 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 4 51 56 Broad-winged Hawk 1 29 5362 Red-tailed Hawk 22 295 441 Rough-legged Hawk 1 5 5 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 5 579 1307 Merlin 0 25 57 Peregrine Falcon 1 36 46 Unknown Accipiter 0 3 3 Unknown Buteo 2 9 15 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 2 4 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2 Total: 3707 33089 45001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Sean Jenniskens Observers: Carol Pitts, Chad Saladin, Chris Saladin, Ed Pitts, Michael Williamson Visitors: The Saladins were around for part of the day again today before heading back home. Tony and Carol Kemp of Owen Sound joined us on the tower for a few hours today as well. Unfortunately, the birds for the most part were far out to the north, and visitors had a hard time enjoying them. Weather: South and southwesterly winds all day along with perfectly imperfect clear skies. Raptor Observations: A decent flight today, again mostly Turkey Vultures. Most of the Vultures today were very far ou to the north; towards the end of the day, you could see them pass behind the furthest wind turbines to the north. The furthers turbines appear to be around 6km (3.7miles) away! There was also a decent count of N. Harriers with 14 - this included multiples of each age/sex category. The highlight though was a very unexpected dark morph Rough-legged Hawk around 4pm local time. This is our 5th Roughie of the year already! Non-raptor Observations: Lots of ducks on the marsh today, Gadwall being most numberous with approximately 705 being estimated. 1050 Blue Jays were counted migrating, as well as 22 Horned Larks. 2 more Pine Siskins were counted today as well. Full eBird checklist located here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40001843?share=true A total of 10 Monarchs were counted today. For the second time this month, I was stung on the finger by a wasp. Predictions: Similarly imperfect. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Sean Jenniskens (seanjenniskens@hotmail.com) Holiday Beach Conservation Area information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ More site information at hawkcount.org: http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100