Mount Lorette (01 Oct 2026) 42 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 01, 2026 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 1 | 29 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| American Goshawk | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Golden Eagle | 39 | 39 | 305 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Unknown Accipitrine | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Unknown Raptor | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Total: | 42 | 42 | 408 |
| Observation start time: | 07:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 18:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 11 hours |
| Official Counter | Lynette MacCulloch |
| Observers: | Linda Hickey |
Visitors:
36 visitors came by , many were quite interested in what we were doing, most of them were international visitors and quite thrilled with our citizen science work.
Weather:
A frosty morning upon arrival at the observation site, the temperature was minus 5. Once the sun came over the mountains it warmed up to 8 degrees and then settled at 7 at departure. Lovely blue skies dominated till mid-afternoon when cirrus clouds began to spread and by end of day there were stratus clouds in the western sky and scattered cirrus elsewhere. the wind was mostly from the southeast and barely more than a few gusts. Ridge winds were low from the south-west. High winds were from the southwest and west and gradually got stronger than light to moderate.
Raptor Observations:
The first raptor appeared around 11 am flying over the bumps and escaping identification. The first Golden Eagle followed soon over Patrick and then then Bumps. 39 Golden Eagles, 17a,14 Ua, 8 sa, 1 Juvenile Bald Eagle and 1 Sharp Shinned Hawk were seen migrating. A Juvenile Goshawk, Adult Goshawk and 2 non migrating Sharp-shinned Hawks were seen in the valley. The eagles appeared over the Bumps or Patrick all day with the exception of the last few which were high over Lorette and we could follow them to Patrick and the bumps.
Non-raptor Observations:
Other birds were 4 Black-capped Chickadees, 13 Robins, 2 juvenile White-crowned Sparrows, a Magpie, a Crow, a Flicker, 2 Juvenile Franklin Gulls, 2 Common Mergansers and the Ruffed Grouse drumming
Two White-tailed Deer were in the meadow.
Predictions:
Given today was such a late start I would be surprised if the eagles are up very early tomorrow.
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Mount Lorette information may be found at: eaglewatch.ca
More information at hawkcount.org: [Site Profile] [Day Summary] [Month Summary]
Count data submitted via Trektellen.org – [Project Details]
