Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 06, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 2 51 51 Osprey 0 4 4 Bald Eagle 0 5 5 Northern Harrier 6 25 25 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 7 7 Cooper's Hawk 0 5 5 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 4 67 67 Red-tailed Hawk 2 20 20 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 2 25 25 Merlin 1 6 6 Peregrine Falcon 0 3 3 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: 21 218 218 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Noel Herdman Observers: Corinne Allsop, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Paul Gosselin Visitors: Thanks to Noel for being official counter and Paul, Corinne, Liz and Hugh for helping out. Good to meet Monique and Denis and Rachel who took an interest in the birds seen from the Tower. Weather: Variable clouds, moderate wind from the west, comfortable temperature at 20 Deg C Raptor Observations: Low numbers again with Northern Harrier topping the bill with 4. Non-raptor Observations: Good diversity of warblers, slightly lower numbers of swallows. The list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S271856953 Predictions: Wind predicted to be moderate from WNW. Similar temperature to today. May that will attract greater numbers of raptors. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Paul Gosselin (paulgosselin25@hotmail.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