Holiday Beach Hawk Watch
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 2024
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 1721 49283 51180
Osprey 0 2 23
Bald Eagle 3 148 275
Northern Harrier 25 235 758
Sharp-shinned Hawk 162 2431 7802
Cooper's Hawk 6 85 175
American Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 23 257 258
Broad-winged Hawk 0 72 4330
Red-tailed Hawk 76 953 1325
Rough-legged Hawk 1 3 3
Golden Eagle 0 13 13
American Kestrel 1 316 1688
Merlin 1 15 72
Peregrine Falcon 1 34 75
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Mississippi Kite 0 0 1
Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2
Total: 2020 53848 67980
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 15:30:00
Total observation time: 8.5 hours
Official Counter: Kiah Jasper
Observers: Hugh Kent, Juliette Herdman, Liz Kent, Michael Arthurs,
Mike Jaber, Noel Herdman, Paul Gosselin
Visitors:
Thanks to Mike, Paul, Hugh, Liz, Noel, Juliette, Dan and Michael for
helping with the count today. We were visited by; Jeff & Shana from
Chatham-Kent, Bryan & Frances from Kingsville, Pedro from Portugal, Vianney
and Giovanni from Mexico, Yang from LaSalle, Jake, Meredith & Nale from
Ohio, Dennis from Windsor, Helen and Malcolm from Chatham, Brigitte from
Amherstburg and Loreen Michael and Sue from Toronto.
Weather:
The morning started off at 5 Degrees C with lots of moisture in the air,
with fog holding on until after 09:30. The sky was clear blue all day, but
there was a lot of haze in the air. In the afternoon the temperature rose
to 20 Degrees C, quite warm for this time of year. The wind remained out of
the South/Southwest/Southeast all day, at a max of 10kph. The pressure sat
at 30.35
Raptor Observations:
The first few hours of the count today were extremely slow, with under 10
birds per hour. It picked up after 11am, though the flightline was very
far inland. Turkey Vultures were recorded in decent numbers again today
(1,721), and there were small numbers of Red-tailed (76) and Red-shouldered
Hawks (23) mixed in. We barely scraped by for falcons today, recording one
of all three species in the afternoon. The highlight today was a light
morph Rough-legged Hawks that cruised over with a few other buteos far
inland.
Non-raptor Observations:
American White Pelicans continue to be in seen in large numbers foraging in
the marsh, with a minimum of 430 seen during the day. 986 American
Goldfinch migrated over today, along with 2 Pine Siskins and 17 Purple
Finches. The Greater White-fronted Goose from yesterday was seen flying
over the marsh in the morning, but it didn't land and kept going inland.
Other highlights included; 1 Black-crowned Night Heron, 1 Blackpoll
Warbler, 2 Eastern Meadowlarks and a lingering Common Gallinule.
79 species were recorded from the tower today, for the full list click this
eBird link https://ebird.org/checklist/S199379495
Predictions:
Tomorrow will be quite similar to today for wind (south/southwest) and the
temperature will likely break 20C again. The sky is meant to be completly
clear as well. It will be a fairly pleasant day for visitors to the tower,
but the flight line will probably be very distant again.
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Report submitted by Kiah Jasper ([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
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