Holiday Beach Conservation Area
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 16, 2017
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 14 480 480
Osprey 1 18 18
Bald Eagle 0 36 36
Northern Harrier 1 50 50
Sharp-shinned Hawk 80 526 526
Cooper's Hawk 0 9 9
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 3 3
Broad-winged Hawk 21 1695 1695
Red-tailed Hawk 11 72 72
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 17 87 87
Merlin 2 21 21
Peregrine Falcon 1 3 3
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 2 2
Swainson's Hawk 0 1 1
Total: 149 3003 3003
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Observation start time: 07:30:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 7.5 hours
Official Counter: Sean Jenniskens
Observers: Cindy Cartwright, Jeremy Hatt, Jim McCoy, Patrick Tomlinson,
Paul Pratt, Steve Wagner
Visitors:
Many visitors for the Hawk Festival up on the tower today enjoying the sun.
Unfortunately there weren't too many hawks to enjoy along with it.
Weather:
Hot, sunny, almost cloudless skies with the slightest breeze from the SE. A
very warm day up on the hawk tower.
Raptor Observations:
Relatively slow day for raptor numbers today with the poor migration
weather. By mid-morning, most birds had already moved far to the north
where you needed binoculars to see many of them. Majority of the birds were
Sharpies, but there was some other diversity. One adult Red-shouldered Hawk
was a nice treat as it is still relatively early for them.
Non-raptor Observations:
Good diversity of dabbling ducks in the marsh, although total numbers seem
relatively low. A single Green Darner, two each of Black Saddlebags and and
Twelve-spotted Skimmer, along with three Monarchs making up the insects
observed migrating.
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Report submitted by Sean Jenniskens (seanjennisk...@hotmail.com)
Holiday Beach Conservation Area information may be found at:
http://hbmo.ca/
More site information at hawkcount.org:
http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=100
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