Holiday Beach Migration Observatory (HBMO) banded a record late Ruby-throated Hummingbird for our banding station today. It was a hatch-year, male who was healthy and rather plump. He had a fat score of 5 on a 0-7 fat scale used by banders. His weight was 4.2 grams. HBMO is located at the Holiday Beach Conservation Area about 20 km south and east of Windsor where the Detroit River flows into Lake Erie. Carl A. Pascoe HBMO Hummingbird & Passerine Bander From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 22 19:44:56 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 0FA4663476 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 5006 invoked by uid 30); 22 Oct 2006 23:39:53 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Oct 2006 19:10:53 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (22 Oct 2006) 176 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:44:56 -0000
Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 22, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 128 23478 24218 Osprey 0 13 110 Bald Eagle 0 34 85 Northern Harrier 12 245 675 Sharp-shinned Hawk 18 2691 7128 Cooper's Hawk 1 266 450 Northern Goshawk 0 1 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 33 33 Broad-winged Hawk 0 473 7728 Red-tailed Hawk 14 438 598 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 1 5 American Kestrel 0 296 2050 Merlin 0 32 109 Peregrine Falcon 3 29 94 Unknown 4 10 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 3 Total: 176 28035 43300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:30:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff, Claude Radley Observers: Bob Pettit, Tim Smart Weather: A wonderfully miserable morning...steady light rain, Southerly winds, and temperatures about 12 degrees C made for a morning very short on migrating birds of any type. Raptor Observations: Rain and strong winds caused the termination of the count at 10:00 AM EST. When others arrived at the Tower there were birds flying so a supplemental count was done. This count began at 12 noon to 2:30 PM EST. Counters included Bob Pettit, Tim Smart, and Claude Radley. Non-raptor Observations: The marsh was again filled with Red-winged Blackbirds early this morning. Despite the gloomy weather they were calling and flying about in a flock of about 500 birds. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bob Pettit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
