Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 24, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 35 2557 35658 Osprey 0 0 111 Bald Eagle 0 29 124 Northern Harrier 1 403 1187 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 301 9814 Cooper's Hawk 3 167 757 Northern Goshawk 1 13 27 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 410 486 Broad-winged Hawk 0 2 7730 Red-tailed Hawk 31 3096 4219 Rough-legged Hawk 0 24 30 Golden Eagle 1 52 62 American Kestrel 0 4 2113 Merlin 0 5 122 Peregrine Falcon 0 10 113 Unknown 29 40 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Total: 72 7102 62596 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Dan Lumm Observers: Claude Radley Visitors: Bob Mokar and Sue Cullen from Windsor and Blanche Phillips from LaSalle. Weather: Dense fog in the morning improving to mainly sunny after noon. Light SSE winds backing to ESE. Temps from 3 to 7 C. Raptor Observations: A light movement of birds after the weather improved. Most of the birds were on the Northern horizon. An exception was an immature Goshawk that passed close to the tower. Non-raptor Observations: Mallards, Pintails, Gadwall, Green-winged Teal, Ruddy, Black and Ring-necked Ducks were present as well as Hooded Mergansers, American Coots and Pied-billed Grebe. Predictions: Chance of some fog in the morning. Sunny with cloudy periods. Light South winds. Morning low near 2 and afternoon high near 11. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Claude Radley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
