Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 26, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 2750 31888 Osprey 0 0 82 Bald Eagle 1 24 163 Northern Harrier 1 38 459 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 135 5546 Cooper's Hawk 0 107 626 Northern Goshawk 0 8 8 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 241 518 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 6055 Red-tailed Hawk 2 2125 3535 Rough-legged Hawk 0 6 16 Golden Eagle 1 33 42 American Kestrel 0 4 937 Merlin 0 4 88 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 52 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 9 Unknown Buteo 0 16 22 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 2 Unknown Raptor 0 0 5 Black Vulture 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Total: 5 5492 50057 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Todd Pepper Observers: Chuck Sharbaugh, Jeremy Hatt Visitors: Chuck Sharbaugh spent most of the day suffering the lack of raptors with me. Weather: Cloudy all day, althought the sun did peek out a couple times. The temperature ranged from 1.1C to 0 3.5C. Barometric pressure was steady. Winds had mostly a western component, seeming to shift regularly from SW to WSW and until the last hour never more than 5 km/hr Raptor Observations: A very slow day with only 5 raptors of 4 species. Four of the 5 birds all came within 15 minutes of each other, on exactly the same flight line shortly after 12 noon. Non-raptor Observations: A modest migration of song birds in the first couple hours of the count including: 36 Eastern Bluebird; 1 Chipping Sparrow; 160 Red-winged Blackbird; 13 Pine Siskin; and, 56 American Goldfinch. In the non-passerine category there were 37 Tundra Swan. The Big Creek Marsh still has 9 Mute Swans and various numbers of Gadwall, Am. Wigeon, Am. Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal and Ruddy Ducks. Predictions: The forecast is for mainly sunny conditions in the a.m. and clouding up in the p.m. with temperatures from -3C to +2C. Winds are forecasted in the 10 km/hr range all day out of the north-west in the a.m. and the west in the p.m. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Todd Pepper (pepper_todd@yahoo.ca) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/