Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 17, 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 14623 18235 Osprey 0 18 75 Bald Eagle 0 59 282 Northern Harrier 1 81 300 Sharp-shinned Hawk 27 696 5207 Cooper's Hawk 2 174 426 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 19 37 Broad-winged Hawk 0 3 48629 Red-tailed Hawk 1 266 633 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 4 6 American Kestrel 0 211 1101 Merlin 0 14 74 Peregrine Falcon 0 9 29 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 6 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 1 Gyrfalcon 0 1 1 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 7 Total: 31 16178 75050 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Todd Pepper Observers: Visitors: One Weather: A mostly cloudy day that ended in rain. Not much temperature variation with a low of 11.6 and a high of 12.6C. The winds were out of the SW most of the day in the 5 - 10 km/hr range. Raptor Observations: Not much moving. Only 31 raptors of 4 species observed, with 27 of the 31 being Sharp-shinned Hawks. Non-raptor Observations: Not much moving again today. Some species and counts of interest include: Killdeer-17; Semipalmated Plover-3; the 1st Bonaparte's Gulls-14; Blue Jay-460; American Crow-18; Red-winged Blackbird-250. Other "blackbirds" were non-existent except for 1 Common Grackle and 1 European Starling. When the rain started a mini-flock of song birds landed in the scrubs around the hawk tower and included: Eastern Phoebe-1; Brown Creeper-2; Ruby-crowned Kinglet-11; Nashville Warbler-1; Yellow-rumped Warbler-8; Song Sparrow-2. Predictions: The Friday forecast is for mainly sunny skies; temperature of 7 - 18; and winds out of the SW again. It is going to be another slow migration day. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Todd Pepper ([email protected]) Holiday Beach Conservation Area information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
