April
13
[Day 39] (Terry Waters) The temperature at 0915 was 3C which rose to
a high of 7C between 1300 and 1800 and was 6C at 1845. Ground winds
were light SW all day occasionally gusting to 20 km/h, and ridge
winds were probably W moderate to strong. Cloud cover was 100%
altostratus and stratocumulus which reduced to 80% after 1500, and
observing conditions were good all day. The eastern ridges were clear
all day and the west was 20% obscured for most of the day except
around noon when it reached 60%. From 1900 rain and sleet moved in
from the north and low cloud developed on the ridges. There was a
fairly steady stream of raptors with 29 birds moving between 1056 and
1655, of which 13 occurred between 1500 and 1655. All but one of the
birds moved high along the Fisher Range before crossing the
Kananaskis Valley to Mount Lorette. The flight comprised 1 adult
Sharp-shinned Hawk, 1 adult Cooper's Hawk, 1 adult Northern Goshawk,
1 small indeterminate Accipiter,
4 adult calurus
Red-tailed
Hawks, 19 Golden Eagles (10a,4sa,5j) and 2 Peregrine Falcons (1a,1u).
Songbird numbers near the site were thin but included a Western
Meadowlark. 9.5 hours (395.91) SSHA 1 (18), COHA 1 (5), NOGO 1 (12),
UA 1 (7), RTHA 4 (42), GOEA 19 (971), PEFA 2 (3) TOTAL 29 (1158)
Saturday, April 14, 2012
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