There was a small selection of shorebirds at Hillman Marsh late this afternoon, Thursday, October 19th, including 1 Western Sandpiper, 1 Baird's Sandpiper, 1 Solitary Sandpiper and about a dozen Pectoral Sandpipers. The birds were all together just east of the main driveway into the Hillman Marsh parking lot.
The entrance to Hillman Marsh is north of Point Pelee. From Leamington go turn right on Oak Street from Erie Street (at the H.J. Heinz plant) and follow Oak Street right to the entrance driveway of Hillman Marsh. There were no shorebirds in the south-east corner of the Marsh, where evidently a Piping Plover was seen earlier this week. Todd Pepper Leamington, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 19 21:57:46 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mail.taiga.com [204.11.32.182]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B18663C2F for <[email protected]>; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 6361 invoked by uid 30); 20 Oct 2006 01:52:49 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19 Oct 2006 21:10:49 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (19 Oct 2006) 107 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:57:46 -0000 Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 19, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 42 16038 16778 Osprey 0 13 110 Bald Eagle 4 34 85 Northern Harrier 13 227 657 Sharp-shinned Hawk 39 2374 6811 Cooper's Hawk 9 254 438 Northern Goshawk 0 1 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 20 20 Broad-winged Hawk 0 473 7728 Red-tailed Hawk 0 409 569 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 4 American Kestrel 0 286 2040 Merlin 0 32 109 Peregrine Falcon 0 26 91 Unknown 4 10 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 3 Total: 107 20192 35457 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:30:00 Observation end time: 12:30:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Claude Radley Observers: Visitors: Guests from Thunder Bay, Ontario and Homer, Alaska. Weather: Overcast with intermittent rain showers. W-NW winds. Temp 10-11C. Raptor Observations: Sporadic flight during breaks in precipitation. Peregrine flew from the Lodge to the East woods just after sunrise. Oscar the Osprey provided his usual entertainment. Non-raptor Observations: Very large flocks (thousands) of Red-winged Blackbirds and Starlings headed west. A small flock of 18 Rusty Blackbirds was seen. Duck numbers continue to increase but no diving ducks yet. Predictions: Light rain ending near mid morning then overcast until afternoon when the sun should start to break through. Northwest winds all day around 15 kph. Temps will struggle to get out of the single digits. If the sun actually appears it should be a good afternoon. =======================================================================Report submitted by Claude Radley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
