Mount Lorette (20 Mar 2025) 8 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 20, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 19 | 19 |
| 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 | 6 | 580 | 580 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 8 | 605 | 605 |
| Observation start time: | 07:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 18:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 11 hours |
| Official Counter | Lynette MacCulloch |
| Observers: | Caroline Lambert |
Visitors:
About 9 people walked by but only one person stopped to chat.
Weather:
Temperature today was plus 1 when I arrived at the parking lot at 7:30, went as high as plus 4 midafternoon and dropped to 1 degree at 19:00 upon leaving. It was not a very windy day, ground winds were as high as 2 Beaufort wind scale but more often <1 and from the west or southwest. clouds covered sky for majority of day, cumulonimbus, stratus and cumulus clouds. snow flurries appeared every so often but with no accumulation. late afternoon covering broke up into cirrus, cumulus, stratus nimbostratus, patches blue even a little bit of sunshine. ridges were partially obscured most east ridges mostly clear. opal range was cloud day. ridge winds high moderate to light. the switched north later in day.
Raptor Observations:
Today seemed to be a rest day for the migrants. The first raptor to be seen was one of the resident golden eagles hunting over Old Baldy, later seen north of Patrick and then flying south past Mt Kidd. The first migrant was an unidentified Buteo over Hummingbird Plume, who climbed and then disappeared in the cloud. One adult Bald Eagle and 6 Golden Eagles (4a, 2u)came over Patrick flying high and fast.
Non-raptor Observations:
The Ravens were out in good representation,10 in number, three Swans flew towards the Kananaskis Lakes and a Northern shrike visited several times in the meadow and across the river. Five Whitetail deer showed up on the river bank downstream from the observation site. A hiker and two dogs were spotted on top of Patrick.
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