The Spring 2022 Migration Count has commenced and runs from Mar 1st to Apr 22nd with observers at the Mount Lorette site daily — including viewing equipment available to the public. If interested in visiting the site, we suggest that you visit after 3pm. We see the majority of the migrating eagles in the later afternoon. This is the 30th consecutive year of vigilant recording. Mount Lorette site, Observation map.
Related links: Count Reports
Observations
Total Migratory Raptors: 302
03/06/2022
Observers: Blake Weis, Annie Finch, Allison Zukewich
07:15 AM
06:30 PM
-12 to -4 C
It was a bright and sunny day bookended with cloudy periods in the first and last few hours. The western mountains were occasionally obscured by low cloud from snow-making on Nakiska. Otherwise, the ridges were clear. Wind gusted to 20 km/h from the SW in the afternoon.
The first migrant of the season was an adult Bald Eagle flying north over the east side of the valley at 10:26 am. Eagles continued to move over the eastern ridges in a steady trickle until 3 pm, after which only two were seen.
10 (Adults)
5 Bald Eagles (Adults), 1 Unidentified Eagle
11 am to 12 pm and 2 to 3 pm were tied with 4 migrants each
16
n/a
1 Clark's Nutcracker flying high up on Patrick, 1 Red Crossbill
N/a
20
