Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 26, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 769 25312 25879 Osprey 1 45 200 Bald Eagle 2 24 169 Northern Harrier 26 367 749 Sharp-shinned Hawk 123 5855 12669 Cooper's Hawk 23 455 810 Northern Goshawk 0 1 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 15 76 76 Broad-winged Hawk 0 937 43431 Red-tailed Hawk 46 410 484 Rough-legged Hawk 2 8 8 Golden Eagle 1 18 19 American Kestrel 7 3374 4840 Merlin 2 40 127 Peregrine Falcon 1 35 73 Unknown Accipiter 3 38 50 Unknown Buteo 1 24 29 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 1 6 Unknown Raptor 0 6 14 Swainson's Hawk 0 1 2 Total: 1022 37027 89636 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Stephen Kolbe Observers: Jeanece Seals, Jim McCoy, Phyllis Coble, Theresa Lindsey Visitors: A big welcome to the "Tennessee Three" who have once again made it to Holiday Beach! Weather: Temperatures around 12 C today, with increases and decreases depending on the cloud cover. Winds very light out of the southwest early shifting and increasing slightly out of the northwest. Overcast in the morning and afternoon with sunny skies in between. Raptor Observations: A pretty nice day of migration. Birds certainly responded to the breaks of sunshine and got up amazingly high quickly. Migrants were detected going west high even when conditions were heavy overcast. Non-raptor Observations: Pied-billed Grebe 30, Double-crested Cormorant 50, Great Blue Heron 15, Great Egret 2, Mute Swan 50, Canada Goose 15, Wood Duck 12, Green-winged Teal 2, American Black Duck 20, Mallard 150, Northern Pintail 20, Northern Shoveler 30, Gadwall 200, American Wigeon 20, American Coot 600, Killdeer 1, Wilson’s Snipe 1, Bonaparte’s Gull 13, Ring-billed Gull 200, Herring Gull 25, Great Black-backed Gull 2, Rock Pigeon 6, Mourning Dove 2, Belted Kingfisher 2, Red-headed Woodpecker 1, Red-bellied Woodpecker 1, Downy Woodpecker 3, Northern Flicker 4, Eastern Phoebe 2, Horned Lark 75, Tree Swallow 100, Blue Jay 170, American Crow 3480, Black-capped Chickadee 6, Brown Creeper 1, Carolina Wren 1, Golden-crowned Kinglet 4, Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4, Eastern Bluebird 6, American Robin 19, American Pipit 33, Cedar Waxwing 20, European Starling 9000, Blue-headed Vireo 1, Nashville Warbler 1, Yellow-rumped Warbler 9, Northern Cardinal 4, Chipping Sparrow 3, Song Sparrow 4, Swamp Sparrow 1, White-throated Sparrow 1, Dark-eyed Junco 10, Red-winged Blackbird 700, Rusty Blackbird 8, Common Grackle 25, Brown-headed Cowbird 15, Purple Finch 2, Pine Siskin 6, American Goldfinch 60, House Sparrow 4. Monarch 3. Predictions: Overcast with a chance of rain. High of 8°C. Winds from the North at 20 km/h. Chance of rain 50 percent. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Stephen Kolbe (kolbesr@gmail.com) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/