Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 12, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 4 221 221 Osprey 0 11 11 Bald Eagle 0 95 95 Northern Harrier 1 153 153 Sharp-shinned Hawk 82 472 472 Cooper's Hawk 5 26 26 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 7 709 709 Red-tailed Hawk 0 107 107 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 10 291 292 Merlin 1 25 27 Peregrine Falcon 1 7 7 Unknown Accipitrine 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 4 4 Total: 111 2121 2124 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Paul Gosselin Observers: Corinne Allsop, Hugh Kent, Kit McCann, Kory Renaud, Liz Kent Visitors: Big thanks to Corinne, Liz, Hugh and Kit for helping with the count. It was good to see Matt and Tom again. It was also good to meet Pille from Amherstburg (and Estonia), Cindy and Brian from Oshawa and a group from Amherstburg and Spain who were lucky to see a banded American Kestrel released from the Tower. Weather: Wind very light generally from south, with high humidity. Pressure fell throughout the day with cloud cover variable. Temperature around mid to low 20s Raptor Observations: Sharp-shinned Hawks (82) took the top spot with American Kestrels (10) following well behind. A few Broad-wings turned up at the end of the day, seemingly looking for places to roost. Reasonable diversity with 8 species seen with all the falcons making an appearance. Non-raptor Observations: Good day for flycatchers with 6 species seen including 2 Olive-sided Flycatchers perching high on the tall dead tree. New species for the season included Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Northern Waterthrush and Northern Parula. Good numbers of vireos and warblers seen today. Also shorebirds with American Golden Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper and of course Kildeer seen. The list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S392266458 Predictions: Wind tomorrow is forecast from the NW tomorrow morning backing to WNW, which is a good direction for spotting hawks. Temperature 20c rising to 26c in the afternoon. Mix of sun and cloud. Hopefully we will see more of Sharp-shinned Hawks and American Kestrels and the wind direction will encourage more buteos to appear, especially Broad wings! ======================================================================== 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