Mount Lorette (10 Oct 2022) 198 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 10, 2022 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Bald Eagle | 3 | 30 | 43 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 8 | 37 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 | 8 | 19 |
| Northern Goshawk | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 15 | 24 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Eagle | 189 | 738 | 893 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unknown Accipiter | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| Unknown Buteo | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Unknown Eagle | 1 | 8 | 12 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Total: | 198 | 840 | 1091 |
| Observation start time: | 06:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 18:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 12 hours |
| Official Counter | Lori Anderson |
| Observers: | Allison Zukewich, Caroline Lambert, Mustafa Onder Ersin |
Visitors:
About 25 visitors stopped to inquire about our activity and a few observers came specifically to help out in sighting the migrants. Thank you for your assistance Jim St. Laurent, Theresa Gawron, and James Bannon.
Weather:
We had a gorgeous fall morning with yellow leaves and a pink and blue sky filled with alluring lenticular cloud formations, making for an immersive experience in color and shapes, and scent. The temperature started at 1C and rose to 17C. The ground winds started out light but picked up after 10:00 and became strong enough to tumble the chairs. After 16:00 the weather turned and some intermittent light rain set in. Ridge winds were strong all day from the SW with gusts reaching 106 Km/h. Lenticular, Cumulous, and Cirrus cloud coverage averaged about 70% Conditions were favorable for migration and produced 198 Raptors.
Raptor Observations:
Todayâs migration started early and was steady all day until 16:00 when the bad weather set in and it slowed down. The first bird was found at 8:05 above the North Fisher Range and the last flew by at 18:41 above Patrick. The early birds seemed to come up from Wasootch to Patrick and then ventured on along the Eastern Ridges. At 09:42 they started appearing at Lorette and for most of the day, they were mainly found extremely high above the Valley Center north. The final count was 189 Golden Eagles (64a, 9sa, 18j, 98u), 3 Bald Eagles, 1 Coopers Hawk, 4 unidentified Buteos, and 1 unidentified Eagle. The majority of todayâs birds were flying very high and the white clouds and haze made ID difficult to impossible.
Non-raptor Observations:
7 Ravens playing on a thermal above Patrick. 12 Crows migrating from Alberta to B.C. 9 American Robins, 25 Canada Geese, 1 Black-billed Magpie, 2 more Common Ravens,1 Clarkâs Nutcracker, 1 Belted Kingfisher, 2 American Dippers. 1 American Tree Sparrow, 2 Dark-eyed Juncos, 60 Crossbills sp.
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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 Dunkadoo – [Project Details]
