Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 23, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 30327 31407 Osprey 0 24 132 Bald Eagle 0 46 143 Northern Harrier 4 239 576 Sharp-shinned Hawk 19 3440 9055 Cooper's Hawk 1 286 386 Northern Goshawk 0 4 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 182 183 Broad-winged Hawk 0 651 16133 Red-tailed Hawk 0 721 909 Rough-legged Hawk 0 3 3 Golden Eagle 0 5 5 American Kestrel 1 336 1437 Merlin 1 27 100 Peregrine Falcon 0 21 46 Unknown Accipiter 0 1 2 Unknown Buteo 0 9 12 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 2 2 Mississippi Kite 0 0 1 Total: 26 36324 60536 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 16:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Todd Pepper Observers: Jim Pawlicki, John Winebrenner, Larry Ludwicki, Lisa Silvey Visitors: We welcomed back our long term visiters from Tennessee Jeanece Seals, Phyllis Coble and Theresa Lindsay for their 21st year. Lisa Silvey and John Winebrenner of Fort Wayne, Indiana made their annual pilgrimage. Merryz MacRae of Royal Oak, MI was back for her 3rd or 4th time and brought a friend from Caro, up in the "Thumb" of MI. There were also 5 residents of Essex-Windsor who stopped by. Weather: Temperature ranged from 13.5 - 15.5, winds moderate to calm out of the SW shifting to S in mid-afternoon, 60 - 100% cloud cover with slight drizzle off and on after noon. Raptor Observations: 26 individuals of 5 species with Sharp-shins dominating at 19. Two male Northern Harriers came in off the lake and right over the tower before hunting the marsh. Non-raptor Observations: First of all a big thanks to Larry Ludwicki and John Winebrenner for taking over from me at 1 pm since I was not schedued to be the Official Counter-Coordinator for the day. Many passerines and other species migrating today. Six Great Egrets were flying high, just below the cloud level early in the morning following by a flock of 70 Wood Ducks. Clouds of Starlings and other Black-birds steamed by most of the day. Other species of note included: Am. Crow - 346; Am. Robin - 155; Blue Jay - 36; 3 flocks of Killdeer totaling 16 birds; Rusty-Blackbird - 22; lost track of the number of Black-capped Chickadees and Golden-crowned Kinglets but both species over 100. At least 12 N. Cardinals circled the tower all day. Species of less than 5 individuals included: Common Loon; Purple Finch; Red-breasted Nuthatch; Winter & Carolina Wrens; Downy & Hairy Woodpeckers and Northern Flicker; Song, Swamp and White-throated Sparrows; Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Greater Yellowlegs. Predictions: Same as today with SW winds, cloudy and potential for rain in PM. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Todd Pepper (tandjpepper@cogeco.ca) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/