Holiday Beach Conservation Area
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 29, 2017
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 32 8048 56168
Osprey 0 1 77
Bald Eagle 1 106 262
Northern Harrier 0 91 515
Sharp-shinned Hawk 9 522 5377
Cooper's Hawk 6 122 305
Northern Goshawk 0 5 6
Red-shouldered Hawk 20 750 883
Broad-winged Hawk 0 1 5366
Red-tailed Hawk 71 2757 3736
Rough-legged Hawk 0 27 44
Golden Eagle 2 85 97
American Kestrel 0 4 1371
Merlin 0 7 77
Peregrine Falcon 0 10 62
Unknown Accipiter 1 4 8
Unknown Buteo 1 4 21
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 1 3 12
Short-eared Owl 0 0 1
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2
Total: 144 12547 74390
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 7 hours
Official Counter: Sean Jenniskens
Observers: Bob Pettit, Cramer, Dan Lumm, Dave Martin, Jim McCoy,
Linda Wladarski, Michael Williamson
Visitors:
Many to the tower today for quite potentially the last 'full' day of the
season. Thank you to all who came out.
Weather:
Winds started out of the northwest but were due north for much of the day
before switching to the east and eventually all the way to the south. Not a
cloud in sight all day.
Raptor Observations:
A decent day today - though everything was very high and in the blue sky we
must have missed quite a few going over higher than our eyes could see.
Decent flights of both Red-tails and Red-shoulders. Two Golden Eagles were
the highlights of the day - despite also being very high. Either way a very
good total for the second last day of the count.
Non-raptor Observations:
A few American Goldfinches were migrating today, though most went unseen in
the blue sky. Despite this, 140 were tallied. Another big late push of
American Crows with approximately 1810. Full eBird checklist here:
https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40815397?share=true
Predictions:
South winds and rain predicted for the morning - west winds and just a
small chance of rain in the afternoon.
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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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