Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 16, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 98 98 Osprey 0 7 7 Bald Eagle 5 88 88 Northern Harrier 13 100 101 Sharp-shinned Hawk 175 1030 1030 Cooper's Hawk 2 23 24 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 822 4984 4984 Red-tailed Hawk 1 55 55 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 23 311 311 Merlin 1 31 31 Peregrine Falcon 0 17 17 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 Total: 1042 6744 6746 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Nicole Shangi Observers: Chris Craft, Claude Radley, Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Pratt, Paul, Winebrenner, John Visitors: We thank all our visitors again today, especially our observers Paul, Claude, Chris and John. Weather: The weather today was not as clear as it has been the last couple of weeks and we had a southwest wind most of the day. Despite this, we still managed to see good numbers of birds! Raptor Observations: Broad-wings - FINALLY. We counted around 800 broad-wings today. Not a huge amount, but an amount to celebrate none-the-less. There were also a nice amount of northern harriers today too. Non-raptor Observations: Over 32,000 blue jays! Numbers have been increasing over the next few days, and fingers crossed we have a good number for our hawk fest tomorrow! We also saw a variety of vireos, a brown thrasher, and Gray-cheeked thrush. https://ebird.org/checklist/S118855553 Predictions: Hawk Fest! We hope to have a good turn out of visitors as well as hawks for our annual Hawk Fest tomorrow from 9am-3pm. The weather will be warm, and hopefully the wind will be in our favour! ======================================================================== Report submitted by Nicole Shangi (nicole.shangi@outlook.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 Count data submitted via Dunkadoo - Project info at: https://dunkadoo.org/explore/hbmo/hbmo-hawk-watch-fall-2022