March 20 Daily Flight Summary

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks opened over 1/2 mile of heavily drifted snow over two days.

Official Counter         

Adam Richardson

Observers       

None

Weather         

-13C in camp at Fort Logan this morning at 08:00.  High temperature of 3C today.  Excellent visibility with another bluebird day at Camp Baker.  29cm of snow persists along the banks of the Smith River.  Winds were out of the south most of the day 5-14kph.  The barometer fell slightly.

Raptor Notes 

Another slow, but steady day with one migrating raptor per hour.  A sub-adult GOEA was perched somewhere quite near and to the E of the OP this morning.  An electrical worker flushed the bird and surprisingly it continued S directly over the river into the canyon.  After that a few light-morphed RLHA came through.  Around 15:00 a couple of eagles came through, one sub-adult BAEA and an UNEA that Nate one of the ranger’s spotted.

It was another slow day for resident raptors too.  The adult light-morphed RTHA was spotted in Sheep Creek as well as the two adult GOEA.  Our resident adult BAEA was perched upstream in its favorite tree on a prominent west bluff of the Smith River for most of the day.

Non-raptor Notes

The first two Mountain Bluebird of the season were spotted perched along a fence line to the E of the OP.

Visitors           

Colin Maas the head ranger at Camp Baker and his crew showed up to plow their way into Camp Baker today.  By the end of the count they had plowed most of the road to their shop.

Next Day Forecast

High 48F and low of 23F.

West wind 9mph.