Mount Lorette (17 Mar 2025) 163 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 17, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| American Goshawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Eagle | 162 | 334 | 334 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Accipitrine | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 163 | 351 | 351 |
| Observation start time: | 08:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 20:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 11 hours |
| Official Counter | Lori Anderson |
| Observers: | Allan Hingston, Rosemary Power, Xavier Gorloo |
Visitors:
About 28 students came out for a visit from the Lawrence Grassi Middle School. Rosemary helped them learn about the eagles and our project. In addition, about 20 people stopped by the site.
Weather:
At the start of the count, the temperature was â8C gradually rising to +3 by 15:00 and dropping to â1 by the end. Ground winds stayed between 6-11 Km/h from the SW all day. The ridge winds appeared to come from the West and were strong enough to create plumes on all of the ridges both east and west until later in the day. A few snow squall intrusions from the south and southwest occurred between 14:00 â18:30. Mainly Cumulous clouds covered between 20-80% of the sky. The Eastern Ridges were clear all day and the West was only partially (10%) covered all day.
Raptor Observations:
We had an abundant influx of Eagles today starting at 9:50. The numbers picked up after 12:00 and between 14:00- 16:30 there was a major frenzy of eagles appearing continuously one after another. The route today was over the Eastern ridges, generally very high but some also flew lower in the face of Wasootch. Many flew over Lorrete and others flew across the face of Lorette. The final count for the day was 132 Golden Eagles (110a, 9sa, 1j, 42u) and one juvenile Bald Eagle. A resident Golden made a few rounds, and a Bald Eagle sat in his favorite tree across the river, later flying north.
Non-raptor Observations:
An extremely quiet day as far as small birds goes. Only one Black-capped chickadee was heard singing his Tweee-dle-dee song. 7 Ravens
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