Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 11, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 27 93 93 Osprey 3 8 8 Bald Eagle 8 25 25 Northern Harrier 11 54 54 Sharp-shinned Hawk 45 69 69 Cooper's Hawk 4 18 18 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 33 156 156 Red-tailed Hawk 2 40 40 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 108 149 149 Merlin 11 23 23 Peregrine Falcon 1 5 5 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: 253 640 640 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Chad Cornish Observers: Hugh Kent, Noel Herdman Visitors: Carol, Emily Weather: Slight winds NNE early in the morning, changing to southerly by mid-day. Raptor Observations: A slow start even with northerly winds, but surprisingly a big uptick in raptors after the slight winds changed to south. American Kestrels led the way by a large margin, folllord by Sharp-shinned and Broad-winged. A very good showing Merlin (11). Non-raptor Observations: Thanks to Chad for being the official counter today, and to Noel for assisting for most of the day, and to Hugh for helping in the afternoon. A good variety of passerines early this morning, and the eBird list can be found here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272812600 Predictions: Northeast winds predicted for tomorrow, so lets hope this is the beginning of something good. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Chad Cornish (mail@chadcornish.ca) 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