Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 26, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 24340 24929 Osprey 0 50 184 Bald Eagle 0 48 151 Northern Harrier 2 455 1002 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 4784 12107 Cooper's Hawk 0 291 570 Northern Goshawk 0 8 11 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 264 265 Broad-winged Hawk 0 16 18400 Red-tailed Hawk 0 1353 1594 Rough-legged Hawk 0 3 4 Golden Eagle 0 14 14 American Kestrel 0 499 1604 Merlin 0 28 100 Peregrine Falcon 0 54 83 Unknown Accipiter 0 2 2 Unknown Buteo 0 17 21 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 2 4 Unknown Raptor 0 0 6 Total: 5 32228 61051 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 3 hours Official Counter: Bob Pettit Observers: Jeanice Seals, Phyllis Coble Visitors: Rene Kielbasa from Amherstburg. Phyllis Coble and Jeanece Seals from TN. The other of the "Tennessee Trio" had other obligations. Weather: Rain when I arrived at 8:40. Stopped at 11 am. Count started 9 am EST. 100% clouds. Temp C: 14.5, 16.4. 14.1. Barometer falling 30.18 in Hg to 30.15 in Hg. Wind ESE to SSE4-8 km/hr. Raptor Observations: Very few. 3 Sharpies and 2 Harriers. One Juv. Harrier examined the trout pond for over 15 minutes. Sallying back and forth over the outer path and the inner shoreline. Landed twice on the inside of the southwest corner and on the north inside 5 feet from the shoreline. Back and forth, back and forth. Snap! It got a frog and proceeded westward landing some distance away and had lunch. Non-raptor Observations: Bluebird - 2, Kingfisher - 1, Starling - 1,500 (Two big long cloud-like phalanxes of them.), Killdeer - 1, Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 (Low to the ground.), Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10, Eastern Phoebe - 3, Red-bellied Woodpecker -1, Downey Woodpecker -1, Common Moorhen -1, Mute Swan - 15, Bufflehead - 6 (Landed in trout pond in a group of 2 males and 4 females. Stayed 10 minutes then off.) Predictions: Some rain ======================================================================== Report submitted by Bob Pettit (redknot@earthlink.net) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/