Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 22, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 11 1849 33669 Osprey 0 1 203 Bald Eagle 1 13 194 Northern Harrier 5 122 933 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 111 13070 Cooper's Hawk 5 179 1047 Northern Goshawk 1 10 14 Red-shouldered Hawk 4 339 495 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 43431 Red-tailed Hawk 136 2285 3230 Rough-legged Hawk 2 15 27 Golden Eagle 0 68 108 American Kestrel 0 15 4874 Merlin 2 8 137 Peregrine Falcon 0 5 79 Unknown Accipiter 0 15 65 Unknown Buteo 0 20 49 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 6 Unknown Raptor 0 0 14 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Black Vulture 0 1 1 Total: 170 5056 101649 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 4 hours Official Counter: Mike Fitzpatrick Observers: Jim McCoy, Martin Blagdurn Visitors: Olga and Roland Kleckner Weather: Started with heavy ominous overcast, which never lightened. Brisk winds out of NE, which sometimes wavered btwn NNE and ENE. Rain threatened, the whole time, and finally occurred at exactly 1 pm, which we felt was a good quitting time. Raptor Observations: quite a few redtails throughout period, until about 12:30, when flight slowed to a trickle. Non-raptor Observations: nice flock of 27 snow geese, inc 8 blues, @ 11:24. a small flock of snow buntings came through quickly @ 12:15 Predictions: come out and help Sarah count lots of buteos ======================================================================== Report submitted by Michael Fitzpatrick ([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 [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
