Holiday Beach Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 05, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 5 9 9 Osprey 1 4 4 Bald Eagle 0 4 4 Northern Harrier 1 23 23 Sharp-shinned Hawk 30 117 117 Cooper's Hawk 1 14 14 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 8 109 109 Red-tailed Hawk 1 18 18 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 4 11 11 Merlin 1 2 2 Peregrine Falcon 0 3 3 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 1 1 1 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 53 315 315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 5.5 hours Official Counter: Bob Pettit Observers: Claude Radley, Janina Radley, Jim McCoy Visitors: Many visitors enjoyed their day in the sunshine. Remember our festival of hawks: Sept 12-13, 19-20, and 26. Visit here for PDF schedule of events. http://hbmo.org/Festival_of_Hawks_2009.pdf Starting Tuesday Justin Bolser of Lancaster, PA will begin counting full-time for us. He will be on the tower M-F and the regular volunteers with schedule the weekends. Many of the regulars will also join Justin on their historical count days too. Welcome Justin. Weather: Again hot 27.2C. Cloud cover varied with the wind direction. Cloud bottoms were from 2,000 to 3,200 feet (Air temp C - Dew point temp C) X 4 = cloud bottom height in feet. For the first time I witnessed truly variable winds. NNE, N, SW, NW, SE, ENE. A round and a round we go. Raptor Observations: 50+ raptors. With variable winds and cloud cover the hawks were either not visible (clear sky) or very visible (cloud backing). But these visible one were mostly seen after watching something else; plane, monarch butterfly, swallows, etc and then a distance and high bird was visible. In the white, now in the blue, now where is it, oh yes, there. Non-raptor Observations: A good day for small migrants. The passerine station banding over 80 birds. We saw several species of warblers, vireos, flycatchers, finches, and waterfowl from the tower. No standout though. Monarchs 75, Swallows 100. Monarchs were in singles from 40 feet to 400 feet altitude flight path due west. Predictions: Continuation of today. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bob Pettit ([email protected]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
