Thursday, November 11, 2010

November 9 [Day 49] (George Halmazna) Cool air persisted with a high temperature of only 1.5C at 1300 from a low of -5C, and it sporadically snowed for the first 2 hours of the count. Ground winds were calm to very light in the morning becoming SW in the afternoon still mainly light but gusting to 20 km/h at 1400, while ridge winds were SW-SSW all day mainly moderate but occasionally gusting to 120 km/h in the morning and to 84 km/h in the afternoon. An initial cloud cover of 90% stratus gradually reduced throughout the day to 40% stratus and cumulus. There was again a fairly strong raptor movement with a total of 46 birds recorded between 0816 and 1542 with maximum hourly counts of 9 birds in each of the 3 hours between 1000 and 1300. With the exception of 2 adult Northern Goshawks all migrants were eagles: 14 Bald Eagles (9a, 5j) and 30 Golden Eagles (26a, 4j). There were few passerine migrants but a late American Pipit was notable, and the morning snow produced fresh Canada Lynx tracks near the site. We were planning to finish the count on November 10 but because of the movement of 100 raptors during the last 2 days we shall try to find observers to extend the count to at least Sunday November 14. 10.5 hours (525.22) BAEA 14 (154), NOGO 2 (33), GOEA 30 (3183) TOTAL 46 (3587)

0 comments:

Post a Comment