Wednesday, October 27, 2010

October 24 [Day 34] (Bill Wilson) The cooling trend continued with the temperature reaching 8C at 1700 from a low of -2.5C, falling to 6C at 1830. Ground winds were SE-S, occasionally SW 0-5 occasionally gusting 12 km/h, and ridge winds SSW-SW, occasionally SE, mainly light to moderate but gusting above 60 km/h on occasion. Cloud cover was 100% altostratus and cumulus to 1800 after which it became slightly broken. A total of 32 Golden Eagles (21a, 3sa, 6j, 2u) moved between 0823 and 1800 with 11 birds occurring between 0800 and 0900 and a further 5 from 0900 to 1000 promising a significant movement, but subsequently no hour yielded more that 3 birds. The 9 Bald Eagles recorded was the highest total since October 5 and comprised 5adults, 1 late subadult and 3 juveniles, and the only other migrant raptor was a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk. The Golden Eagle movement was along the eastern route from Mount Lorette to the Fisher Range, but most of the Bald Eagles moved to the west of the site. Again there was no apparent songbird movement. 11.16 hours (337.32) BAEA 9 (98), RLHA 1 (20), GOEA 32 (2527)

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