Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 20, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 1141 29172 36356 Osprey 0 2 13 Bald Eagle 0 33 285 Northern Harrier 30 241 559 Sharp-shinned Hawk 114 2456 6302 Cooper's Hawk 2 108 200 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 93 94 Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701 Red-tailed Hawk 8 574 750 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 8 631 2023 Merlin 1 39 98 Peregrine Falcon 1 44 96 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: 1305 33439 112481 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Heather Broddy, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Michael Arthurs Visitors: Thank you to our observers today, Michael and Heather, for your help counting and photographing raptors this morning! Weather: The morning began like the previous days this week, cold and windy. The wind was from the southwest all day. A bit before 3pm, we noticed a wall of snow approaching from the lake. We stuck it out for a little while before packing it in for the day. Raptor Observations: We had a good count of raptors for a southwest wind. The star of the day was again the northern harrier. We counted 29, 10 of them grey ghosts. many flew very close to the tower. We counted over 1000 turkey vultures, mostly to the north. A peregrine, merlin and 8 kestrels made an appearance today, along with 8 red-tails, 2 coopers hawks, and 114 sharp-shinned hawks. Non-raptor Observations: The high winds suppressed many birds again today, however many species were observed in the interior of the park, protected by trees. Gadwall and American coot are still on the marsh in high numbers. There were many woodpeckers about today including yellow-bellied sapsucker, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker and northern flicker. https://ebird.org/checklist/S121007134 Predictions: Tomorrow will hopefully be much warmer and sunnier. Winds will be strong from the south, and the tower might be protected from the strong winds from the tree line. There should be more waterfowl and shorebirds on the marsh, and more passerines to spot around the tower. There will likely be raptors such as sharp-shinned hawks, turkey vultures, and harriers flying tomorrow. ======================================================================== 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