Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 26, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 216 876 876 Osprey 0 9 9 Bald Eagle 0 171 171 Northern Harrier 9 234 235 Sharp-shinned Hawk 187 2541 2541 Cooper's Hawk 4 66 67 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 7 56810 56810 Red-tailed Hawk 1 83 83 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 14 1252 1252 Merlin 2 57 57 Peregrine Falcon 3 37 37 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: 443 62136 62138 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman Visitors: We thank Noel for his exceptional spotting skills this morning. Despite the weather, we had a young school group join us today to watch the migrations. We thank all our other visitors today as well! Weather: The weather today was cloudy and windy and a bit drizzly at times. The wind was westerly all day and chilly. Raptor Observations: We are starting to see the first of the turkey vulture migration, we had a few passing through most of the day. The afternoon observations slowed down significantly but in the morning we had sharp-shinned hawks, kestrels, a merlin, peregrines, harriers and even a few broad winged hawks. Non-raptor Observations: the strong winds kept many birds away today and we did not observe any new species. It looked like even the blue jays had a bit of a hard time fighting the wind, we counted close to 10,000. We have been on the lookout for shorebirds and waterfowl. The marsh may see more shorebirds this fall due to the lower level of water in the marsh. https://ebird.org/checklist/S119479632 Predictions: Tomorrow's wind may have a northerly component for some of the day so hopefully we see the last few broad-winged hawks close to the tower. We look forward to counting more turkey vultures, and we are quickly approaching red-shouldered hawk migration. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Nicole Shangi (nicole.shangi@outlook.com) 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