Wednesday, March 7, 2012


March 6 [Day 5] (Joel Duncan) The mountains continued to be obscured until mid afternoon after which they quickly cleared but by the end of the day they were all obscured again. The temperature at 1200 was -7C and rose to a high of -5.5C, ground winds were calm to variable, 0-6 km/h while ridge winds appeared to be light or possibly moderate and cloud cover was 70% cumulus and stratocumulus between 1200 and 1630 after which it was 90% stratocumulus. At 1305 2 adult Bald Eagles moved north above the Fisher Range ridge followed 1 minute later by 2 adult Golden Eagles, and that comprised the day's raptor movement. Single Common Goldeneye, Killdeer and European Starling were all firsts for the season, and the Song Sparrow was still present near the site. 6.5 hours (45.99) BAEA 2 (2), GOEA 2 (8) TOTAL 4 (10)

Beauvais Ridge (Peter Sherrington) I spent 2.5 hours between 1500 and 1730 at the site and observed 1 adult Bald Eagle and 7 Golden Eagles (6a,1sa) moving either to the N or to the WNW from the ridge that is located SW of Beauvais Lake. A single light morph Rough-legged Hawk moved south to roost at 1705. The temperature was -6 to -4C, winds were N 3-10 km/h and cloud cover was initially 70% cumulus and stratocumulus quickly reducing to 20% by the end. 2.5 hours (4.25) migrants: BAEA 1 (1), GOEA 7 (7) TOTAL 8 (8); roosters: RLHA 1 TOTAL 1 (12)

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