Holiday Beach
Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 23, 2007
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 40 192 192
Osprey 4 108 108
Bald Eagle 6 80 80
Northern Harrier 40 330 330
Sharp-shinned Hawk 353 5307 5307
Cooper's Hawk 22 192 192
Northern Goshawk 1 3 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1
Broad-winged Hawk 690 17961 17961
Red-tailed Hawk 22 171 171
Rough-legged Hawk 0 1 1
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 13 792 792
Merlin 0 40 40
Peregrine Falcon 0 16 16
Unknown 6 6
Total: 1191 25200 25200
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff
Observers: Bob Pettit, Claude Radley, Dan Lumm, Jason Sodergren,
Karen Padbury, Tom Hince
Visitors:
The last day of The Festival of Hawks drew large crowds to the tower for
most of the day. At one point we had nearly 50 visitors on the tower. We
hope everyone enjoyed their tower time, and will visit again before the
season is over on Nov 30th.
Weather:
A great start to the day with winds from the North, and sun to create
thermals. Temps started at 14.5 C and reached 24.4 C by later afternoon.
During the 10:00 am hour our winds began to shift, and we had mainly
Southerly winds for the remainer of the day. A cloudless sky made for many
high flying migrants.
Raptor Observations:
A nice showing of Sharp Shinned Hawks, and Broad Wing Hawks today. The
BW's were mainly in the 9:00am hour and were distant and high kettles to
the North East of the tower. Also a nice day for migrating Norther
Harriers with a total of 40.
Non-raptor Observations:
Blue Jays "en mass" today with a total of approx 45,700 birds. Steady
streams near and far, and high straight thru to the noon hour...then
smaller numbers. Also noted migrating: Northern Flicker, Purple Finch,
Chimney Swift, White and Red Breasted Nuthatch, Common Snipe, Lesser Yellow
Legs, Ruby Throated Humming Bird, American Pipit, American Gold Finch.
Monarchs are still moving thru in small numbers.
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Report submitted by Cindy Isenhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at:
http://hbmo.org/
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