Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 19, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 1689 48417 Osprey 0 2 55 Bald Eagle 0 44 280 Northern Harrier 4 85 488 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 144 7768 Cooper's Hawk 0 30 316 Northern Goshawk 0 3 10 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 98 401 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 36348 Red-tailed Hawk 1 965 2324 Rough-legged Hawk 0 14 20 Golden Eagle 0 42 68 American Kestrel 0 6 1025 Merlin 0 5 74 Peregrine Falcon 0 6 52 Unknown Accipiter 0 1 23 Unknown Buteo 0 20 220 Unknown Eagle 0 3 5 Unknown Falcon 0 1 7 Unknown Raptor 0 1 47 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 5 3159 97949 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 6.5 hours Official Counter: Jenna McDermott Observers: Larry Ludwicki Weather: The wind came from the south today, blowing snow into neat patterns over the ice on the marsh. Visibility dropped to 200m once the snow started falling at 10:30 and continued until 2pm, though it lightened up considerably at 1pm. Raptor Observations: Only 5 birds braved the storm today; 4 Northern Harriers and 1 Red-tailed Hawk. A juvenile Peregrine Falcon didn't migrate but popped up a couple of times through the day, chasing passerines and maybe scanning for a duck or two, though it didn't catch anything that we saw. Non-raptor Observations: Not much activity on the passerine front, though it was nice to have 2 American Pipits wandering through the grass and on the ice, sticking around most of the day. A big surprise was a Wilson's Snipe that popped right into my binocular view while I was checking out some of the mergansers that stayed in the Trout Pond all day. The snipe flew towards the beach and wasn't seen again! See today's eBird list http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/view/checklist?subID=S20609854 ======================================================================== Report submitted by Jenna McDermott ([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
