Mount Lorette (16 Oct 2022) 49 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 16, 2022 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Bald Eagle | 3 | 54 | 67 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 16 | 45 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| Northern Goshawk | 2 | 17 | 24 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 20 | 29 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Golden Eagle | 44 | 1349 | 1504 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 11 | 13 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Unknown Accipiter | 0 | 8 | 14 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 14 | 18 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Total: | 49 | 1528 | 1779 |
| Observation start time: | 07:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 18:45:00 |
| Total observation time: | 9.92 hours |
| Official Counter | Blake Weis, Caroline Lambert |
| Observers: | Blake Weis, Lynn Macintosh |
Visitors:
10 People came to the site to watch migration after the 30th anniversary celebration. 30 other visitors passed through Hay Meadow
Weather:
The weather this fall has been so strangely consistent and so unusually warm that this almost seems like a copy/paste of previous entries. The morning was chilly with a low of -2C and the afternoon was quite warm with a high of 18C. The sky was almost totally clear with only 10% cirrus late in the day. Wind was nearly calm and ground level and light to moderate and ridge level with max gusts briefly reaching 32 km/h.
Raptor Observations:
Once again migrants were moving low and slow, mostly soaring and flapping without much gliding. They were using the east ridges and often passed behind the various peaks of the Fisher Range, sometimes emerging again farther south, sometimes not.
Non-raptor Observations:
Belted Kingfisher – 1 Canada Jay – 2 Black-billed Magpie – 1 Common Raven – 7 Red Crossbill – 25 Mountain Chickadee – 2 Brown Creeper – 2
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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]
