Holiday Beach Hawk Watch
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 03, 2022
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 85 1306 53397
Osprey 0 0 16
Bald Eagle 0 0 299
Northern Harrier 0 6 676
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 25 7055
Cooper's Hawk 1 9 293
Northern Goshawk 0 1 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 15 81 449
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 65702
Red-tailed Hawk 196 755 3133
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 1 4 17
American Kestrel 0 1 2082
Merlin 0 1 115
Peregrine Falcon 2 3 110
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 1
Total: 301 2192 133348
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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: Bob Hall-Brooks, John Hall, Juliette Herdman, Noel Herdman,
Peter Veighey
Visitors:
Thank you to our visitors today, Bob and Aldo, and our observers Noel,
Juliette, Peter and Bob. We appreciate your continued support!
Weather:
The weather today was warm and calm with southerly winds all day. The
morning was very foggy and persisted will into the afternoon as a haze.
Raptor Observations:
There were less raptors seen today than the rest of this week, with many
travelling to the north. The majority were red-tailed hawks, with a few red
shoulders that came close to the tower. Turkey vultures were greatly
decreased today, and all other species were almost completely absent. The
highlight of the day was another juvenile bald eagle!
Non-raptor Observations:
There were a few species to note today including two first of the year
brown creepers (finally), a group of 5 sandhill cranes, two of which landed
in the marsh, the Virginia rail, and redheads which flew over close to the
tower. There were large murmurations of starlings again this morning, along
with large mixed flocks of rusty blackbirds, grackles and red-winged
blackbirds.
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Predictions:
Tomorrow again looks similar to today, with temperatures warming in the
afternoon. Winds are still southerly tomorrow, bit much stronger than the
rest of the week. Hopefully we see some of the raptors which were absent
today including accipiters and falcons. We have been consistently seeing
golden eagles, and tomorrow might be another good day!
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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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