Holiday Beach Hawk Watch
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2025
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 2 53 53
Osprey 1 5 5
Bald Eagle 9 14 14
Northern Harrier 12 37 37
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 15 15
Cooper's Hawk 7 12 12
American Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 14 81 81
Red-tailed Hawk 6 26 26
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 3 28 28
Merlin 2 8 8
Peregrine Falcon 1 4 4
Unknown Accipitrine 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Total: 65 283 283
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Observation start time: 07:30:00
Observation end time: 14:00:00
Total observation time: 6.5 hours
Official Counter: Noel Herdman, Paul Gosselin
Observers: Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman, Paul Gosselin,
Paul Pratt
Visitors:
Thanks to Noel and Paul G both doing a stint as the Official Counter. Hugh,
Liz and Paul P helped out too. It was good to welcome Nadia, Kevin. Shaun,
Jane, Chris and other visitors to the Tower, all showed an interest in the
hawk watch.
Weather:
Slight north west wind for first half hour then moved to south light to
moderate. #varieble cloud mostly clear early in the day. Pleasant 18 DegC
but increased to 27 when the wind dropped in the last hour.
Raptor Observations:
Better Day today with Broad-winged Hawk (14) and Northern Harrier (12)
vying for top spot. A few more Sharp-shinned Hawks, could this be the start
of the Sharp-shinned migration?
Non-raptor Observations:
List similar to yesterday with good variety of Warblers and Flycatchers.
Bird of the day was a Sora, photographed near the Tower and calling. The
list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S272096446
Predictions:
Light wind from the north initially then turning south around midday.
Hopefully the wind will enable us to see more hawks.
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Report submitted by Hugh Kent ([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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