Thursday, November 4, 2010

November 4 [Day 44] (George Halmazna) It was an amazingly warm day for early November with the temperature reaching 17C at 1400 and 1500 from a low of -1C, and it was still 11C at 1800. Ground winds were generally calm to light SW occasionally gusting 30-50 km/h between 1100 and 1500 and were almost calm after 1600. Ridge winds were moderate N-NNE gusting to 74 km/h to 1300, then moderate variable NE-SE gusting to 85 km/h. The sky was cloudless to 1500 after which 30-80% cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus developed. The first Golden Eagle of the day moved at 0836, peak movement was 19 birds (of which 18 were Golden Eagles) between 1100 and 1200 and by 1242 50 Golden Eagles had been recorded, but subsequently only 6 more birds moved and the last Golden Eagle was seen at 1554. The 17th Golden Eagle of the day recorded at 0959 was the 3000th of the season. The total count was 3 adult Bald Eagles, 1 light morph Rough-legged Hawk and 56 Golden Eagles (50a, 6j). Other birds proved to be scarce but included 152 Bohemian Waxwings and 5 White-winged Crossbills. 10.75 hours (474.48) BAEA 3 (125), RLHA 1 (23), GOEA 56 (3039) TOTAL 60 (3406)

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