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.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
November 8 [Day 72] The morning was as gloomy as it was yesterday with 100% cloud cover, a starting temperature of 0C and moderate westerly winds. After 1300, however, the altostratus cloud dissipated and was replaced by 40-60% cirrus and cumulus, the wind dropped to less than 10 km/h and the temperature rose to 5C under mainly sunny skies: it felt like August again. It was not to last: at 1510 the wind switched to E, 100% altostratus and cumulus cloud developed quickly, the temperature fell back to 0C and by 1700 cloud was enveloping the peaks of the Livingstone Range. Although the first Golden Eagle moved south at 0825 raptor migration was slow with only 11 birds counted before 1400. The next two hours, however, produced 18 more birds with the last, a Rough-legged Hawk, moving at 1551. The highlight of the day was an adult Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk at 1517, the latest ever record of the species at the site and the first time the subspecies has been seen in November. An adult Bald Eagle at 1441 brought the combined species total for the season to 7,800. A flock of 120 Canada Geese flew high to the SSW at 0915, 14 flew high to the W at 1643 and a third flock of 20 moved to the SSW at 1700 just as the weather was closing in. A Northern Pygmy-Owl was in the area all afternoon, at one time perching at the site for around 20 minutes. Passerine movement was fairly diverse but numbers were somewhat down from the last several days: 69 Bohemian Waxwings, 1 Snow Bunting, 1 Purple Finch, 56 Grey-crowned Rosy Finches, 7 Pine Grosbeaks, 9 Red Crossbills, 17 White-winged Crossbills and 108 Common Redpolls. 10.58 hours (799.49) BAEA 14 (453), NOGO 3 (148), RTHA 1 (187), RLHA 4 (64), GOEA 7 (5260) TOTAL 29 (7810)
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