Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 03, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 9 122 144 Osprey 0 7 7 Bald Eagle 2 37 40 Northern Harrier 3 67 86 Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 19 21 Cooper's Hawk 0 4 5 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 58 255 267 Red-tailed Hawk 12 201 241 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 8 201 209 Merlin 1 7 7 Peregrine Falcon 0 2 2 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 Mississippi Kite 0 1 1 Total: 99 923 1030 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 06:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Kiah Jasper Observers: Alessandra Wilcox, Chip Ogglesby, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Mike Jaber, Noel Herdman, Peter Veighey Visitors: Quieter than the last few days for visitors, though it makes sense given the winds and it's a weekday. Thanks to Mike, Noel, Peter, Alessandra, Hugh, Liz, Chip and Tim for stopping by to help out with the count. David and Steve from Windsor also stopped by for a bit. Weather: Winds very light today and constantly switching around (NE for the first two hours, then E and SE for the rest of the day). The temperature also varied a lot, between 9 and 26 degrees C. Quite hot up on the tower by mid afternoon, with hardly any wind or cloud cover. Raptor Observations: 99 raptors (counting TVs) were observed today, mainly during the first 4 hours of the day when winds were slightly more favourable and broad-wings were leaving their roost sites. The flight was very high in the afternoon, and often quite far inland, making spotting birds tough. Non-raptor Observations: Despite the poor winds, we had our highest species tally this week from the tower, with 88 species observed. Similar to raptors there wasn't much of a flight of goldfinches, waxwings or blackbirds today, but there were quite a few songbirds at the base of the tower. 17 warbler species were observed, with the most common being Cape May, Tennessee and Bay-breasted. Highlights from today included Olive-sided Flycatcher, Great Black-backed Gull, flyby Whimbrel and my first Blackpoll Warbler of the fall here. For the full species list from today see this checklist - https://ebird.org/checklist/S193877028 Predictions: Tomorrow the winds will be from the south/southeast, so I'm expecting another quiet day on the tower. As of now the next day with favourable winds looks to be Saturday. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Kiah Jasper (kiahbirder@gmail.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