Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 25, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 996 68983 72456 Osprey 0 4 30 Bald Eagle 0 139 346 Northern Harrier 5 487 1068 Sharp-shinned Hawk 16 3134 8568 Cooper's Hawk 3 215 327 American Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 360 361 Broad-winged Hawk 0 53 107107 Red-tailed Hawk 22 1723 2125 Rough-legged Hawk 0 6 6 Golden Eagle 1 32 32 American Kestrel 0 855 2224 Merlin 2 51 154 Peregrine Falcon 0 48 82 Unknown Accipitrine 0 4 5 Unknown Buteo 0 9 11 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 1 3 Unknown Raptor 0 4 26 Black Vulture 0 1 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1 Total: 1046 76110 194934 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Paul Gosselin Observers: Christine Hare, Daniel Lee, Hugh Kent, Jaron Wilkinson, Mike Jaber, Robin Smallwood Visitors: Thank you to our dedicated observers Jaron, Robin, Mike, Christine, Hugh, Daniel. Great seeing lots of visitors on the tower with it being the last day the park is open. We were able to show off a Golden Eagle to many. Thanks to Brett and Vicki who helped spot hawks. Great to chat with Chris and his son Josh. Its very good to see a young boy as keen as Josh taking up this great hobby. Weather: The hawk count started foggy with light winds from the north. Things cleared up in the afternoon with winds shifting to the south west. Temperatures rose throughout the day to 21c. Scattered clouds all day. Raptor Observations: The weak winds really did hamper the number of birds we saw. Highlights for the day were the Red-shouldered and Golden Eagle that showed up in the afternoon. The species that came through in the most numbers was the Turkey Vultures (996), mostly passing well north of the tower. Non-raptor Observations: Non raptor highlights were some late season Blackpoll Warblers (3) and lots of Cedar waxwings (333). The afternoon sky was filled with huge murmurations of European Starlings (16700). The list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S405432361 Predictions: Tomorrow the wind is coming out of the north-west. We can hope that those good winds bring in more late season birds such as Rough-Legged Hawk and Golden Eagles. ======================================================================== 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