Holiday Beach
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 01, 2009
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 31 31 43038
Osprey 0 0 94
Bald Eagle 4 4 153
Northern Harrier 2 2 591
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 1 9521
Cooper's Hawk 2 2 812
Northern Goshawk 0 0 18
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 758
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 18292
Red-tailed Hawk 17 17 4075
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 5
Golden Eagle 0 0 45
American Kestrel 0 0 1733
Merlin 0 0 120
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 99
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 7
Unknown Buteo 0 0 11
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 1
Unknown Raptor 0 0 1
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2
Total: 57 57 79376
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Observation start time: 09:30:00
Observation end time: 14:30:00
Total observation time: 5 hours
Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff
Observers: Cramer, Jeanice Seals, Karen Padbury, Phyllis Coble,
Teresa Lindsey
Visitors:
Our friends from Tennesse are visiting -- Theresa Lindsey, Phyllis Cober
and Jeanece Seals will be spending the next few days on the tower. We had
multiple visitors and thanks to all for helping to find those scarce
raptors today.
Weather:
The morning was cool and cloudy. Winds were variable thru the day, but
very light. Temps from 7.9 C to 9.2 C, cloud cover began to break up about
noon, and by afternoon we had mainly sunny skies.
Raptor Observations:
Very slow raptor day--less than 30 raptors for the day, excluding Turkey
Vultures. Many birds were very high by noon
Non-raptor Observations:
Today was American Crow day. We had one huge movement during the 11
o'clock hour that was conservatively 10,500 crows. Additionally there were
another 1000 that migrated the remainder of the afternoon.
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Report submitted by Cindy Isenhoff (akahawkla...@aol.com)
Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at:
http://hbmo.org/
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