Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 29, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 776 41544 44395 Osprey 0 19 76 Bald Eagle 4 59 151 Northern Harrier 6 256 416 Sharp-shinned Hawk 92 2330 4758 Cooper's Hawk 11 107 168 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 22 112 117 Broad-winged Hawk 0 32 5365 Red-tailed Hawk 61 713 859 Rough-legged Hawk 0 13 13 Golden Eagle 1 11 11 American Kestrel 8 637 1365 Merlin 1 37 69 Peregrine Falcon 1 41 51 Unknown Accipiter 1 4 4 Unknown Buteo 1 11 17 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 7 9 Short-eared Owl 0 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2 Total: 985 45935 57847 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 6 hours Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff Observers: Chuck Sharbaugh, Dan Lumm, Larry Ludwicki, Olga Klekner Visitors: We had various visitors to the tower today with a few regulars who spent all or part of the day with me. Dan Lumm, his sister Paula from Waterford MI and Chuck Sharbaugh also from MI spent the day with me...Thanks so much for all your help in keeping track of the migrants who seemed to claim no real flight path--but were coming from both sides and up the middle. Weather: Complete cloud cover today with chilly temperatures and light winds from the W in the morning, shifting between WNW and NW later in the day. Temperatures ranged from 5.4C to 7.8C, winds were never over 5.5 kmph. Raptor Observations: Our resident Bald Eagles were in the marsh this morning, one of the adults swooped low and grabbed a small duck of some sort and flew off while Chuck and I watched. Also present today was the Osprey which has been hanging around. A nice all around day for migrating hawks with 11 species migrating through. Only one Golden Eagle today very distant to the north...thanks to Dan for finding this in the spotting scope! Non-raptor Observations: Mixed Blackbird flocks were moving in big numbers early in the day (1470). A few groups of Blue Jays (80)moved through early, and some large American Crow flocks (1229) filled out the afternoon. We still had both Ruby-crowned, and Golden-crowned Kinglets in the shrubs around the tower. One Yellow-rumped Warbler was noted as well. Predictions: Weather will be much the same for tomorrow, but no N component to the wind predicted ======================================================================== Report submitted by Cindy Isenhoff ([email protected]) Holiday Beach Conservation Area information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ More site information at hawkcount.org: http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
