This afternoon around 3:00 pm I located a Red-throated Loon in winter plumage about 200 meters se of SE headland.
Directions: Col. Samuel Smith Park is located on Lake Ontario just south of Humber College and the entrance road to the park is a southern extension of Kipling Avenue; drive to end of the road and park and take the walkway to headland lookout located nearest the parking lot. Wayne Renaud From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 13 16:52:25 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECB04829B for <[email protected]>; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:52:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 31704 invoked by uid 525); 13 Nov 2004 21:56:56 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Nov 2004 04:11:56 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (13 Nov 2004) 253 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:52:25 -0000 Holiday Beach Migration Observatory Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 13, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 13 824 14742 Osprey 0 0 83 Bald Eagle 2 16 61 Northern Harrier 1 22 270 Sharp-shinned Hawk 14 121 5492 Cooper's Hawk 7 79 362 Northern Goshawk 1 23 28 Red-shouldered Hawk 10 244 398 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 27843 Red-tailed Hawk 197 1537 2729 Rough-legged Hawk 6 33 62 Golden Eagle 2 37 39 American Kestrel 0 1 1369 Merlin 0 4 62 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 15 Unknown 0 105 238 Total: 253 3046 53793 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Olga Klekner Observers: Claude Radley, Dan Lumm, Steve Winiarski Visitors: We had a good number of visitors, including two groups of children with their grandparents. Weather: A bright and cool November day with moderate ENE-N winds. Temperatures climbed from 2.0 to 6.0 C. Observations: Early in the day movement was scatterd and the birds were quite low. The peak hour was from 10:00 to 11:00 when 90 Red-tailed were counted. Bird numbers fell dramatically after 1:00 with no apparent change in conditions. The few birds after 1:00 were scattered and very high. The highlight of the day was a second year Goshawk bought to the tower and released by Bob Hall-Brooks. A magnificent bird that left Bob with a small souvenir in the form of a nipped finger. We had 40 Tundra Swans in the morning and a partially albino American Crow (dirty white except for darker tail, wing tips and head). 450 total American Crows. Few passerines with a small movement of Goldfinches. Predictions: Another bright sunny day for tomorrow with light and variable winds in the morning, becoming light southerlies during the day. Warmer, with a high of 10 C. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Olga Klekner () Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
