Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 15, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 1186 15958 16698 Osprey 1 13 110 Bald Eagle 1 29 80 Northern Harrier 7 203 633 Sharp-shinned Hawk 138 2273 6710 Cooper's Hawk 5 241 425 Northern Goshawk 0 1 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 20 20 Broad-winged Hawk 0 473 7728 Red-tailed Hawk 11 408 568 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 4 American Kestrel 7 286 2040 Merlin 0 32 109 Peregrine Falcon 2 24 89 Unknown 4 10 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 3 Total: 1358 19966 35231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff Observers: Fred Urie, Jim McCoy, Karen Padbury Visitors: Thanks to the visitors on tower helping to keep track of Turkey Vulture kettles in the distance. Weather: Clear and sunny skies greeted the day with cool morning temperatures warming nicely into afternoon. The cloudless sky for most of the day made finding the hawks challenging. Winds from the WSW most of the day turning SW occasionaly in the afternoon hindered some hawk movement today. Temps were from 5.7 degrees C to 14.7 C. Winds moderate to light most of the day. Raptor Observations: Turkey Vultures continue to move thru with today's tally at 1176. Less than 200 other raptors were counted today...the majority of those were Sharp Shinned Hawks. Today's highlight was the two Peregrines that moved over the marsh about 10 minutes apart hunting ducks over the point in the eight o'clock hour. Non-raptor Observations: Blackbird species...especially Red Winged were seen in large flocks of over 150 birds at a time today. The total counted here was 4400. Some Blue Jays continue to move thru with a total of 775 counted. American Crows started with 297 tallied today. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Cindy Isenhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
