Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 04, 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 1866 3970 Osprey 0 1 6 Bald Eagle 0 3 36 Northern Harrier 21 81 291 Sharp-shinned Hawk 260 1318 5267 Cooper's Hawk 4 34 106 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 4 5 Broad-winged Hawk 1 50 45223 Red-tailed Hawk 1 35 219 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 36 361 1573 Merlin 2 16 119 Peregrine Falcon 1 4 60 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 1 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 326 3773 56878 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Hugh Kent Observers: Elizabeth Kent, Michael Arthurs Visitors: We appreciate all the interest in the tower and the hawk watch but remind everyone that the tower remains closed to members of the public and has a three-person limit reserved for the Hawk Counters. Thank you to all who are respecting these precautions. Be safe everyone! Weather: Overcast all day with rain or drizzle for most of the time, but it did stop in the last couple of hours. The gentle Wind was from the west for most of the day but did turn south west for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Temperature was around 12c. Raptor Observations: The weather halted the turkey vultures and buteos with only one Broad-wing and one red-tail seen. Again good numbers of Sharp-shinned hawks (260), but lesser numbers of American Kestrels. It was a good day for Northern Harriers with 21 seen including 2 gray ghosts. Non-raptor Observations: Another day of significant numbers of Blue Jays but much less than recent days with 'only' 25,780, when will it end? Good numbers of Tree Swallows hawking over the marsh and the dabbling ducks are slowly increasing. The day ended with a mad half hour of songbirds around the tower with 8 species of warbler including a smart adult Canada Warbler and a pair of Blue-headed Vireos. Full list can be found at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74432499 Predictions: With wind from the north overnight, and a much brighter day tomorrow, albeit with wind from the south, we will hopefully get the Turkey Vultures and buteos back over the tower. Of course, we also hope to see more sharp-shins, harriers and falcons. ======================================================================== 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: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100