Holiday Beach Hawk Watch
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 03, 2022
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 2021 7179 14363
Osprey 0 1 12
Bald Eagle 6 26 278
Northern Harrier 12 64 382
Sharp-shinned Hawk 241 912 4758
Cooper's Hawk 14 43 135
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 11 70 71
Broad-winged Hawk 2 39 65698
Red-tailed Hawk 91 378 554
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 6 322 1714
Merlin 1 7 66
Peregrine Falcon 2 5 57
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
Total: 2407 9046 88088
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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: Hugh Kent, Jim McCoy, John Hall, Juliette Herdman, Liz Kent,
Noel Herdman
Visitors:
We thank all our visitors and counters including Noel, Juliette, Jim, Dana,
John, Linda and Joe. We appreciate all the eyes we can get while these
north winds persist!
Weather:
The weather today was mostly sunny with a few clouds. We had some pretty
interesting rainbows today which only took up a little of our attention (I
promise). The wind was northerly most of the day and weak, and by the
afternoon it had turned southeast. A pleasant day on the tower!
Raptor Observations:
The majority of birds today were turkey vultures, easily countable as they
were right over the tower. Most commonly, red-shouldered hawks, and
red-tailed hawks flew with them and were easy to spot with the clear skies.
Mid-morning we had lots of sharpies fly over the tower.
Non-raptor Observations:
We had a few new species seen today including white-crowned sparrow,
American tree sparrow, and winter wren. There were more waterfowl on the
marsh too, in open pools of water between the dying lilies. We had northern
shoveler, gadwall, a trumpeter swan and others. Another good migration day
for blue jays with 33,000 seen. Yellow-rumped warblers continue to be very
abundant around the tower.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S119917637
Predictions:
Tomorrow's winds are said to have a northern component, and more turkey
vultures should be flying over the tower, likely with red-shoulders and
red-tails in tow. The sharp shinned hawks have been consistently flying
close to the tower so come and get some great pictures!
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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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