Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 28, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 593 1862 1862 Osprey 0 9 9 Bald Eagle 9 187 187 Northern Harrier 29 277 278 Sharp-shinned Hawk 494 3318 3318 Cooper's Hawk 5 75 76 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 1 1 Broad-winged Hawk 5962 63085 63085 Red-tailed Hawk 34 117 117 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 39 1360 1360 Merlin 0 57 57 Peregrine Falcon 0 41 41 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: 7166 70389 70391 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 10 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: John Hall, Noel Herdman, Olga Klekner, Roland Klekner Visitors: I can't thank Olga and Noel enough for all of their incredible help today on the tower. I couldn't do it without you! Thank you to all of our other interested visitors to the tower today as well. Weather: The weather today was perfect. Cool, partly cloudy and a northern wind. It was a great day on the tower! Raptor Observations: We had an amazing day today. We counted so many raptors including a new addition: red-shouldered hawk! We counted over 6000 broad-wings today unexpectedly, this late in the season. There were over 4000 in the last hour. Non-raptor Observations: We were slightly preoccupied with counting raptors that we did not see much in regards to passerines. There were almost 20,000 jays today. Olga's eagle eyes caught a very tight group of American white pelican flying over the lake which we were so excited to see! https://ebird.org/checklist/S119598971 Predictions: Tomorrow looks slightly warmer and less cloudy. We are hoping for a northern component wind throughout the day and hopefully we have another good broad-wing day! ======================================================================== 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