The South Livingstone Raptor Count for the fall migration of 2007 has now begun. First official day of counting began on 25th August 2007. Follow the daily movement of raptors on this blog updated daily by Peter Sherrington.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

November 10 [Day 74] Winds were again westerly all day, generally moderate until 1430 after which they gusted up to 70 km/h. The temperature was 3C at 0800 and rose to 4C by late morning, but fell to 0C by 1600, and mainly cumulus and cumulostratus cloud cover ranged from 70-100%. Light rain showers in the morning gave way to periods of snow and hail after 1345 with the mountains to the north periodically obscured for up to 50 minutes at a time. Raptor movement again started early with the only Rough-legged Hawk of the day moving south with a couple of ravens at 0745, and was steady until 1400 by which time 47 birds had gone south. After the snow developed only another 3 migrants were seen including the second adult grey morph Gyrfalcon of the day: a female (the first was a male). In a 32 minute period in the morning we reached three milestones for the season: the 5300th Golden Eagle at 1019, the 7900th migrant raptor at 1031 and the 500th Bald Eagle at 1051. Passerine movement was relatively sparse and comprised 57 Bohemian Waxwings, 32 Grey-crowned Rosy Finches, 1 Red Crossbill and 26 Common Redpolls. 10.25 hours (820.24) BAEA 18 (505), NOGO 1 (151), RLHA 1 (69), GOEA 28 (5322), GYRF 2 (8) TOTAL 50 (7934)

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