Mount Lorette (11 Nov 2025) 22 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 11, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 21 | 89 |
| 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 | 21 | 234 | 2439 |
| 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: | 22 | 260 | 2898 |
| Observation start time: | 09:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 17:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 8 hours |
| Official Counter | Caroline Lambert |
| Observers: | Lynn Macintosh |
Visitors:
As it was a holiday, there were quite a few people on the trail. About 20 stopped to talk to us.
Weather:
As the effects of yesterday’s Chinook wind wore off, there was a negative trend in the temperature today. It started off unusually warm at 7C, reached a high of 8C, and was 5C when we left at sunset. The sky was almost completely covered with cumulus cloud at the start of the count. These thinned out during the morning exposing some cirrus cloud above. By the end of the day lenticular clouds were forming to the northeast, with thick cumulus clouds still persisting to the south and west. Ground winds were initially 10-20kph but subsided to almost nothing by day’s end. Ridge winds were moderate, ranging from 24kph to 43 kph, gusting as high as 63. Most of the higher clouds were coming from the northwest.
Raptor Observations:
Today’s conditions appeared very suitable for migrating Golden Eagles. Nearly all were seen gliding very high (3 to 4 binocular views up) and fast over the east ridge. With the sun behind thick clouds most of the day, and with clouds behind the east ridge, these high flying eagles were just black silhouettes against a white backdrop, making aging impossible. The total was 21 Golden Eagles (4a, 2ui, 15u) and one adult Bald Eagle.
A local juvenile Bald Eagle was seen twice, and an adult Bald Eagle was spotted flying up the river.
Non-raptor Observations:
Other birds seen today: one American Three-toed Woodpecker, three Common Mergansers, one female Belted Kingfisher, one Black-billed Magpie, about eight Common Ravens, two Mountain Chickadees, one American Dipper, about 50 Bohemian Waxwings, five Pine Grosbeaks, and about 15 Redpolls.
Report submitted by Caroline Lambert (caroline144@gmail.com)
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]
