Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 05, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 9 177 3789 Osprey 1 6 63 Bald Eagle 0 3 226 Northern Harrier 2 13 232 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 232 4743 Cooper's Hawk 2 47 299 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 18 Broad-winged Hawk 0 2 48628 Red-tailed Hawk 0 6 373 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 2 American Kestrel 0 65 955 Merlin 0 6 66 Peregrine Falcon 1 7 27 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 6 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 1 Gyrfalcon 0 1 1 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 7 Total: 26 565 59437 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Bri-Anna Jaksic Observers: Visitors: I spent my morning with a fellow from the Yukon, here to see some Southern Ontario birds. He visited Holiday Beach and Ojibway Park in search of a Tufted Titmouse. Word from Ojibway was he was successful in his find! Dwayne Murphy and his beautiful family were up for a visit, as well as Jim McCoy whom I spent my afternoon with. A few couples from Virginia and assorted states also visited. Weather: Today's weather called for a complete washout, luckily the rain only halted the counts from 1-2. Temperature ranged from 18-24.6 with clouds most of the day. Winds from the E/SE through the day and were calm. Raptor Observations: Slow day for raptors only 26 total raptors counted. I noticed that most of the Sharp-shinned would come through with the droves of Blue Jays. I kept my eyes peeled for Sharpies during those heavy flights. Non-raptor Observations: Today was the day for Jays! They came through strong the majority of the morning, when the rains came everything slowed but the Jays were right back on track after the rain. Monarchs-8 Chimney Swifts-1 Palm Warbler-4 Brown Trasher-1 Eastern Pheobe-2 Yellow Rumped Warbler- 4 White Throated Sparrow-5 Gold Finch- 26 European Starling- 790 Predictions: With the weather calling for a complete wash out, let's hope the rainy weather by-passes the tower again and hope to see some more Raptor migration. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bri-Anna Jaksic (briannajaksic@gmail.com) Holiday Beach Conservation Area information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/