Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 14, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 41 2418 35050 Osprey 0 0 111 Bald Eagle 4 14 109 Northern Harrier 8 370 1149 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 292 9382 Cooper's Hawk 4 132 709 Northern Goshawk 0 9 23 Red-shouldered Hawk 15 297 373 Broad-winged Hawk 0 2 7730 Red-tailed Hawk 104 1791 2913 Rough-legged Hawk 1 18 24 Golden Eagle 1 19 29 American Kestrel 0 4 2106 Merlin 0 5 121 Peregrine Falcon 0 7 108 Unknown 19 30 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Total: 181 5397 59970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 10:00:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Mike Fitzpatrick Observers: Claude Radley, Rene Keibossa, none Visitors: Rene Kielbasa, Claude Radley Weather: Morning started out completely overcast and quite cool-wind was out of the north. Around 11:15, the sun came out, there were patches of blue and the birds just kept on comin! The winds shifted to the south around 2pm, the clouds came back even heavier, and the flight stopped cold! A dark cloud bank rolled in around 3:15 that looked like snow clouds. By the time it reached the tower, we were in almost-twilight! Raptor Observations: the majority of birds came thru in 4 kettles spaced throughout the few hrs of semi-cloudy conditions. The lone GE was an adult. Non-raptor Observations: 3 sandhill cranes flew over at 11:45. They were later seen at SMRR. A bizarre-looking crow flew over(surprisingly) that was missing most of his secondaries, and half of his primaries. We kept wondering how he was able to NOT move in perpetual circles! We also had a tailless TV Predictions: could be very good, esp with NE winds. There has got to be some RL's some way, some day! ======================================================================== Report submitted by Michael Fitzpatrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
