Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 07, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 2 53 53 Osprey 1 5 5 Bald Eagle 9 14 14 Northern Harrier 12 37 37 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 15 15 Cooper's Hawk 7 12 12 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 14 81 81 Red-tailed Hawk 6 26 26 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 3 28 28 Merlin 2 8 8 Peregrine Falcon 1 4 4 Unknown Accipitrine 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 65 283 283 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:30:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 6.5 hours Official Counter: Noel Herdman, Paul Gosselin Observers: Hugh Kent, Liz Kent, Noel Herdman, Paul Gosselin, Paul Pratt Visitors: Thanks to Noel and Paul G both doing a stint as the Official Counter. Hugh, Liz and Paul P helped out too. It was good to welcome Nadia, Kevin. Shaun, Jane, Chris and other visitors to the Tower, all showed an interest in the hawk watch. Weather: Slight north west wind for first half hour then moved to south light to moderate. #varieble cloud mostly clear early in the day. Pleasant 18 DegC but increased to 27 when the wind dropped in the last hour. Raptor Observations: Better Day today with Broad-winged Hawk (14) and Northern Harrier (12) vying for top spot. A few more Sharp-shinned Hawks, could this be the start of the Sharp-shinned migration? Non-raptor Observations: List similar to yesterday with good variety of Warblers and Flycatchers. Bird of the day was a Sora, photographed near the Tower and calling. The list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S272096446 Predictions: Light wind from the north initially then turning south around midday. Hopefully the wind will enable us to see more hawks. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Hugh Kent (Hughnkent@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