Mount Lorette (23 Sep 2024) 15 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 23, 2024 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| Northern Harrier | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 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 | 3 | 3 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Eagle | 7 | 63 | 63 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Merlin | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Accipiter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Falcon | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Raptor | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total: | 15 | 86 | 86 |
| Observation start time: | 07:15:00 |
| Observation end time: | 17:30:00 |
| Total observation time: | 10.75 hours |
| Official Counter | Lori Anderson |
| Observers: | Lynette MacCulloch |
Visitors:
72 Thanks to Jim St. Laurent for helping out. I would like to give a special mention to a Scottish gentleman who is currently working on a re-wilding project in the Scottish Highlands. Thanks to all who passed by and showed interest in our project!
Weather:
It was a wonderful fall day, sunny and warm most of the time with a few gusty periods to cool us down. The temperature at the start was 12 C. It reached a high of 18C at 3 pm, then cooled down to 16 C when we finalized at 18:00. Between 12:00 and 17:00 gusts reached up to 25 Kmh. Cumulous, Cirrus and Lenticular clouds covered between 30 and 70 % of the sky throughout the day and a bit of stratus formed at times to the west and to the east but never overhead.
Raptor Observations:
Most of the raptors were located gliding above the Eastern ridges. A sharp-shinned Hawk hunted in the meadow for a brief period. The total count was: Golden Eagle 7 (3a,3sa,1u), Bald Eagle 3 adults, Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 adult male, Peregrin Falcon 1, Northern Harrier 1 adult female, Unidentified large falcon 1, Unidentified raptor 1.
Non-raptor Observations:
Robins 60, Black-capped chickadee 2, Pine siskin. Northern Flicker 1, Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1, Raven 12, Common Merganser 4, Lincoln Sparrow 1 Savanna Sparrow 1. A flamboyant Herald Moth drank from my closed bottle of strawberry water Kefir all day. It even went away to take a nap and found the way back an hour later to continue eating. I thought I was going to have to take it home. 2 red squirrels. 1 chipmunk in the parking lot.
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