Mount Lorette (10 Nov 2025) 1 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Bald Eagle | 0 | 20 | 88 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 0 | 198 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| American Goshawk | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Golden Eagle | 1 | 213 | 2418 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Accipitrine | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 1 | 17 |
| Total: | 1 | 238 | 2876 |
| Observation start time: | 09:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 17:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 8 hours |
| Official Counter | Lynette MacCulloch |
| Observers: | Bill McKeeman |
Visitors:
We had 40 visitors and 5 dogs, all well behaved. Several people seemed quite interested in volunteering at some point in their lives
Weather:
This was a very unusual November day. The temperature at start was 8 degrees Celsius, up to 10 degrees at noon and then back down to 8 degrees at 16:00. The morning was fairly clear with few cumulus puffballs and gauzy strands to be able to tell the high winds were strong and from the west. Darker clouds came up in the west ,moving to the southern sky and then over to the eastern sky so that we had nice clouds cover to be able to see eagles against should they decide to fly. By days end, the sky had cleared and once again dark clouds moved in to cover a good half of the sky. Ground winds were southwest anywhere from less than 1BFT to gusts of BFT 5. The ridge winds were very strong from the southwest up to 128km/hr. with gusts up to 155km/hr. The high winds were mostly west and moving very rapidly
Raptor Observations:
With the high winds, there was much anticipation in seeing eagles flying high in the sky and lots of them. However, only one Golden eagle (an adult) was spotted all day, just over the bumps and then flying just under the tops of Fisher and McDougall disappearing over Baldy.
Non-raptor Observations:
The Ravens were having a hay day with the wind. There were demonstrations of their aviation skills with synchronized flying, and singleton air ballet. There were approximately 12 Ravens, climbing high, diving and flourishing around the mountain tops. Every black speck turned out to be a Raven except one. We did see two adult Bald eagles, sitting in a tree down stream then flying up and down the valley. Two magpies accompanied them. A Northern Goshawk flew low over the trees and landed in the middle somewhere. Several flocks of White-winged Cross-bills flew over as well as a small flock of Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks. Six Bohemian Waxwings flew over, two Gray Jays came to visit as did the American Dipper. Black-capped Chickadees, Mountain Chickadees and Red-breasted Nuthatches called from the spruces. A lone White-tailed Buck went through the meadow in the morning.
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