Holiday Beach Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 08, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 12 12 Osprey 8 17 17 Bald Eagle 0 6 6 Northern Harrier 7 40 40 Sharp-shinned Hawk 84 469 469 Cooper's Hawk 0 18 18 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 25 184 184 Red-tailed Hawk 1 26 26 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 4 43 43 Merlin 5 7 7 Peregrine Falcon 2 6 6 Unknown Accipiter 0 2 2 Unknown Buteo 0 1 1 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 136 831 831 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Justin Bosler Observers: Claude Radley, Jim McCoy, Rene Kielbasa Visitors: Three couples made it up to the tower today in addition to a few of our helpful and much appreciated regulars. Weather: Overcast to mostly cloudy skies with scattered AM rain showers. North-northeast winds early on switched to East by midday and even turned East-southeast by early PM. Temps. ranged from 20 to 25C. Raptor Observations: Scattered rain showers kept raptor numbers at a minimum throughout the morning. Some clearing and drying out by late morning allowed for a relatively nice midday flight of Sharpies. Also, it was our first 3 falcon day with a total of 5 westbound Merlins, and one additional bird low and close heading east (not counted). Non-raptor Observations: A few birds worthy of mention today: American Bittern, 1 Black-crowned Night-heron, 4-5 A number of shorebirds including B-b Plover, Solitary Sandpiper, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Dunlin (15), Least Sandpiper, S-b Dowitcher, and Wilson's Snipe. Bonaparte's Gull, 2 (FOF) Common Nighthawk, 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 13 Purple Martin, 5 Fair number of warblers heading west along the lakeshore in the AM despite wet conditions. Purple Finch, 1 Predictions: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers. Slight chance of a PM t-storm. Winds generally light from the East-northeast and East. High of 25C. ======================================================================== Report submitted by () 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/
