Mount Lorette (02 Oct 2025) 31 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 02, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bald Eagle | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 5 | 35 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| American Goshawk | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 4 | 26 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Eagle | 26 | 51 | 193 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Accipitrine | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Unknown Eagle | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total: | 31 | 71 | 316 |
| Observation start time: | 07:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 18:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 10.45 hours |
| Official Counter | Lynette MacCulloch, Lynette MacCulloch Susan Clarahan |
| Observers: | Caroline Lambert, Lynette MacCulloch |
Visitors:
Thirty three visitors stopped to have a look, while a large group of students from Rundle college came by but did not engage. About eight of the visitors brought binoculars and sat watching for eagles for at least half an hour, through out the afternoon. Huge thanks to Caroline for visiting us and helping us by bumping up our eagle observation numbers up with her expertise!!
Weather:
Arriving at the observation site to witness a beautiful sunrise, the temperature was 3 degrees. the temperature rose to a high of 14 degrees and then dropped to 12 degrees by home time. The wind was at first almost imperceptible, with dark clouds hanging over Nakiska, the rest of the sky covered with cumulus and cirrus clouds. By noon he dark clouds had moved off to the south the southwest wind began to blow about 12km/hr. with gusts, the westerly ridge winds were 30km/hr. with gusts to 50km/hr. High winds were south west at moderate speed. b The wind dropped in the middle of the afternoon and high cirrus clouds moved in again with a few fluffy cumulus clouds floating around. The sky was once mostly blue by day’s end.
Raptor Observations:
Thirty one migrating raptors were seen, 2 Bald Eagles, one immature and one adult, 1 adult Coopers Hawk, 26 Golden eagles( 10A,2sa,1j,13u) 2unknown eagles. Aging was extremely hard to do as many of the birds were materializing over the Bumps and simply silhouettes disappearing into the distance.
The resident golden eagle was seen twice , once near Nakiska and once on the east side of the valley hunting. A Sharp-shinned Hawk was observed hunting near Nakiska ski area
Non-raptor Observations:
Song birds abounded in the area. Well over 100 Robins were counted in flocks but it is hard to know if they were repeats as they flew in all directions.35 Ravens were seen, some of which were harassing the immature Golden eagles. Numerous flocks of Pine Siskins, at least one flock of White -winged Crossbills, 1 flock of Golden-crowned Kinglets and a small flock of Yellow-rumped warblers passed us. Black-capped Chickadees, Mountain Chickadees, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Swamp Sparrows, Savannah sparrows, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Northern Flicker, 2 Black-billed Magpies, 1 Dipper and 1 Blue Jay were observed through the day.
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