Holiday Beach Hawk Watch
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 06, 2022
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 374 8697 15881
Osprey 0 1 12
Bald Eagle 0 29 281
Northern Harrier 1 69 387
Sharp-shinned Hawk 28 1011 4857
Cooper's Hawk 1 47 139
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 79 80
Broad-winged Hawk 0 42 65701
Red-tailed Hawk 0 405 581
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 1 1
American Kestrel 5 328 1720
Merlin 0 8 67
Peregrine Falcon 1 9 61
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 1 1
Total: 410 10727 89769
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 9 hours
Official Counter: Nicole Shangi
Observers: Hugh Kent, John Hall, Juliette Herdman, Liz Kent,
Noel Herdman
Visitors:
We thank all our visitors to the tower today including Noel, Juliette,
John, Linda, Rick and Steve.
Weather:
Another warm and slow day on the tower. Winds were from the southwest all
day and very light. Sunny and about 27C.
Raptor Observations:
Today was slow again for raptors, however better than yesterday. We
observed turkey vulture kettles far off to the north. An early morning
peregrine went after a few blue jays right next to the tower. There were a
couple harriers and kestrels as well as a handful of sharpies.
Non-raptor Observations:
The sky was full of starlings today over the marsh. There were also many
gulls and swallows about. The warmth must have caused lots of insects to
emerge for all these birds feast on. We didn't see any new species today,
however we had almost 60 pelicans fly over the marsh! Two even landed in
the marsh for a long while. There is a small chance they may still be there
tomorrow morning. Blue jays are slowing down with just under 8000 counted.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S120018440
Predictions:
Tomorrow looks promising! A cool day with stronger north winds should bring
some larger numbers of hawks. We should be seeing turkey vultures,
red-tailed hawks and red-shouldered hawks, and were crossing our fingers
for another golden eagle!
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Report submitted by Nicole Shangi ([email protected])
Holiday Beach Hawk Watch information may be found at:
http://hbmo.ca/
More site information at hawkcount.org:
https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100
Count data submitted via Dunkadoo - Project info at:
https://dunkadoo.org/explore/hbmo/hbmo-hawk-watch-fall-2022
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