Holiday Beach Hawk Watch Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 27, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 1557 1557 Osprey 0 36 36 Bald Eagle 0 115 115 Northern Harrier 0 334 334 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 4950 4950 Cooper's Hawk 2 82 82 American Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 1 56406 56406 Red-tailed Hawk 0 152 152 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 3 982 982 Merlin 0 92 92 Peregrine Falcon 1 31 31 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 0 0 Total: 10 64737 64737 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Hugh Kent, Peter Veighey Observers: Aldo Bertucci, Liz Kent, Peter Veighey Visitors: Big thanks again to Peter and Aldo who took over the Count in the afternoon. Sorry you didn't see many raptors, but sometimes that's the way it goes. Thanks to David and Jane for helping observing. It was good to meet Neil and Brenda from Orangeville. Weather: All day was overcast with a moderate wind generally from the east. It seemed to threaten rain all day and rained mid morning. Temperature remained in high teens. Visibility was variable with rain frequently passing us to the west. Raptor Observations: Only ten raptors today. Equal numbers of Sharp-shinned Hawks (3) and American Kestrels (3). A single Peregrine provided the excitement by taking a bird over the marsh. Non-raptor Observations: The songbirds made up for the lack of Raptors in spades with again good numbers of warblers of 14 species in the trees around the Tower. Tree Swallows (322) were again hawking insects over the marsh. Great Egret numbers seem to be reducing. Four Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were around the Tower, together with good numbers of Northern Flickers (10). The list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S150924836 Predictions: Likely to be a similar day tomorrow. Given the low number of Hawks today we will be taking a day off. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Hugh Kent (Hughnkent@gmail.com) Holiday Beach Hawk Watch information may be found at: http://hbmo.ca/ More site information at hawkcount.org: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100