Holiday Beach Conservation Area
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 03, 2017
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 3340 4004 52124
Osprey 1 1 77
Bald Eagle 22 25 181
Northern Harrier 18 23 447
Sharp-shinned Hawk 326 345 5200
Cooper's Hawk 17 18 201
Northern Goshawk 3 3 4
Red-shouldered Hawk 227 228 361
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 5365
Red-tailed Hawk 387 393 1372
Rough-legged Hawk 7 8 25
Golden Eagle 11 12 24
American Kestrel 2 2 1369
Merlin 0 1 71
Peregrine Falcon 1 2 54
Unknown Accipiter 1 1 5
Unknown Buteo 2 2 19
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 9
Short-eared Owl 0 0 1
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2
Total: 4365 5068 66911
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Observation start time: 07:30:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 8.5 hours
Official Counter: Sean Jenniskens
Observers: Dan Lumm, Dave Martin, Ian Woodfield, Jim McCoy,
Kory Renaud, Linda Wladarski, Michael Williamson,
Ryan Sokolowski
Visitors:
Lots up on the tower today! Most happy with the flight they saw! Many got
amazing looks at a young Goshawk right over the tower, and several got good
looks at Goldens and Roughies!
Weather:
A good north wind along with moderate cloud cover made for an excellent
day!
Raptor Observations:
Stellar day on the tower today! 4365 Raptors counted total, 3340 being
Turkey Vultures. An excellent count of many/most species. One of the local
Osprey finally left today! 22 Bald Eagles!! 326 Sharpies!! 3 Northern
Goshawks (excellent, super close looks!)!!!! 227 Red-shoulders!! 387
Red-tails (104 in the last hour)!! 7 Roughies (5 were dark morph!)!! AND 11
Golden Eagles!!! A super busy and awesome day!!
Non-raptor Observations:
Little time was spent on non-raptors as the hawks kept us busy the whole
day! Th putative Eurasian x American Wigeon hybrid was seen again today;
many people got on it. 7800 American Crows were counted, but this is well
under-counted. Thousands of blackbirds migrated over today as well. Full
eBird checklist viewable here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40292512?share=true Another Monarch
seen today!
Predictions:
East and southeast winds with rain in the afternoon.
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Report submitted by Sean Jenniskens ([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
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