The South Livingstone Raptor Count for the fall migration of 2008 has now begun. First official day of counting began on 25th August 2008. Follow the daily movement of raptors on this blog updated daily by Peter Sherrington.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

November 24 [Day 89] (Joel Duncan and Denise Cocciolone-Amatto) The temperature at the Valley View site ranged from -2C to 8C at 1300 falling back to 0C at 1700, ground winds were generally W-SW 15-20 gusting 30 km/h and were moderate to strong at the ridge level, and cloud cover was altostratus, lenticular and cirrus typical of strong upper winds, generally 50-90% diminishing to 10% by 1700, producing good observing conditions. The first migrant Golden Eagle occurred at 0851 and by 1000 5 Golden Eagles had been logged, but the rest of the day only produced 4 more migrants with the last bird, an unaged Golden Eagle, passing at 1520. A single Evening Grosbeak was only the third bird of the season. 9 hours (985.22) BAEA 1 (423), RLHA 1 (94), GOEA 7 (5192) TOTAL 9 (8171)

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