Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 02, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 72 113 135 Osprey 3 7 7 Bald Eagle 15 35 38 Northern Harrier 19 64 83 Sharp-shinned Hawk 7 13 15 Cooper's Hawk 3 4 5 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 157 197 209 Red-tailed Hawk 102 189 229 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 77 193 201 Merlin 3 6 6 Peregrine Falcon 1 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: 459 824 931 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Kiah Jasper Observers: Alessandra Wilcox, Hugh Kent, Juliette Herdman, Mike Jaber, Noel Herdman, Peter Veighey, Xander Campbell Visitors: Thanks to all of the observers who stopped by today and helped with the count. Hugh, Alessandra, Peter, Juliette, Noel, Mike and Xander provided me with company for most of the day. Shoutout to Xander for scribing during most of the Afternoon : ) Weather: The wind was out of the NNW for most of the day, switching to NNE later in the day. Colder than yesterday, starting off at 14 degrees and only rising to 20. Low cloud cover (10-30%) for most of the observation period. Raptor Observations: It was a good raptor day for the first week of September, with 459 birds recorded. The bulk were Red-tailed and Broad-winged Hawks, American Kestrels and Northern Harriers, with a few other species mixed in. Good views of some of the closer Broad-wings was a highlights. Non-raptor Observations: There were decent numbers of warblers around the base of the tower in the morning, with 12 species recorded. Cape May Warbler in particular was quite common, with 57 migrating past during the day. There was far less swallow and blackbird activity today, but there were still 900 Purple Martins seen flying past. Other highlights included Common Nighthawk, American Wigeon and Swainson's Thrush. Full list available here https://ebird.org/checklist/S193769901 Predictions: Tomorrow the winds are meant to be lighter, starting off from the Northeast and shifting East later in the day. The temperature and cloud cover should be similar to today. There should still be a fair number of birds moving, the main thing is just if the wind will switch to east early and quiet things down (Without a north component to the wind the flight could be farther inland). ======================================================================== 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