Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 37 67 67 Osprey 3 6 6 Bald Eagle 6 26 26 Northern Harrier 4 32 32 Sharp-shinned Hawk 26 65 65 Cooper's Hawk 0 4 4 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 2 12 12 Red-tailed Hawk 9 34 34 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 3 73 73 Merlin 4 14 14 Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 1 1 Unknown Raptor 0 1 1 Total: 95 336 336 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Todd Pepper Observers: Al Stewart, Claude Radley Visitors: A family from Royal Oak, MI spent several hours on the tour, while a family of 3 from Detroit and a family of 4 from Belle River each spent over an hour on the tower. Other visitors were from Amherstburg, LaSalle, Essex and Windsor. Weather: It started off cool at 14C and warmed up to 24C. A clear sky all day with a steady barometric pressure. Winds started from the N, shifted NE, then ENE, then W, and finally the lake effect kicked and the winds were out of the SW - SE. For most of the day the wind speed was in the 6-8 km/hr range, but it went quite calm several times during the day. Raptor Observations: A good day with 95 raptors of 10 species. The best show was put on by the 5 resident Bald Eagles and 2 of the resident Osprey when they were all overhead of the tower at the same time. Non-raptor Observations: Non-raptor migration was fairly active in the first 3 hours of the day at day count was 509 birds of 39 species, including at least 9 species of warbler, 3 flycatchers, and 4 species of shorebird. Cedar Waxwings were the most prominent with 183 birds and American Goldfinch was in 2nd place with 78 birds. Also a good dragonfly and monarch migration day. The day counts for Black Saddlebags and Common Green Darner today doubled last year's highest day count. The day count for Saddlebags today was 41% of last year's total, while the day count for Darners was 36% of last year's total. 41 Monarchs counted today, 10% of last year's total. Predictions: Another sunny day with temperatures ranging from 13 - 24C and winds out of the East at 10 km/hr. Easterly winds may start to bring in bigger numbers of Sharp-shinned Hawks than seen so far this year. ======================================================================== 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
