Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 28, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 1284 59801 64678 Osprey 0 9 26 Bald Eagle 2 54 136 Northern Harrier 8 301 504 Sharp-shinned Hawk 20 4232 7580 Cooper's Hawk 3 155 237 Northern Goshawk 0 4 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 64 373 376 Broad-winged Hawk 1 21 5262 Red-tailed Hawk 263 1328 1463 Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1 Golden Eagle 2 8 8 American Kestrel 2 676 1301 Merlin 0 25 115 Peregrine Falcon 1 36 87 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 1650 67024 81778 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Stasso, Jacob Observers: Hugh Kent, Jim McCoy, Liz Kent, Renaud, Kory Visitors: We thank all today's observers for their outstanding efforts and those interested in the ongoing Hawk Count. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, access to the top level of Hawk Tower is limited to hawk counters and qualified observers only. The 2nd and lower levels are open to the public practising COVID-19 safe precautions (social distancing). Thank you for your understanding and involvement. Weather: Partly cloudy skies were prevalent today with good visbility and good lighting. Moderate to strong winds tarted north-easterly in the morning, shifting to easterly mid day and then back to north-easterly by the afternoon. Temperatures started at 12 C but elevated to a high of 17 C. Raptor Observations: Nice day for raptor migration thanks in part to the winds pushing all raptors over the tower. Good day for Turkey Vultures with 1284 seen. Sharpies however were surprisingly low with only 20 seen. A very good day for buteos starting early in the morning with a total of 64 Red Shoulders and 263 Red Tails, among these tails was a Dark Morph Red Tail. A single Broad Wing made an appearance. Two Golden Eagles made surprised us today with one appearing at 9:15 am and 2:41 pm EST. A great sighting today was a Black Vulture at 2:10 pm!! Non-raptor Observations: Diverse marsh count continues with growing Black Ducks, American Coot, Ring Necked Duck and Northern Shovelers. American Crow Migration continues with 5760 seen. An amazing spot by Kory Renaud was a Common Raven traveling east in contrast to the migrating Crows. Monarchs were not present today. Predictions: Temperatures tomorrow are expected to be stable around 12 degrees C. Wind is also expected to a stable easterly. However, consistent rainfall is expected throughout the day which will likely hamper raptor movements as similar to the Monday rainfall of this week. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Jacob Stasso (jacobstasso@gmail.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-2021