[cobirds] Raptor Alley (and an eagle show)/Weld

Hi all

I led the Colorado State University Field Ornithology group out on our annual Raptor Alley trip together on Saturday. ZERO wind again-three weekends in a row now! Hoping for a 4th weekend of no wind with Cheyenne Audubon group this Saturday. ;-)

Total of 48 raptors for our Saturday efforts:

• Northern Harrier - 5
• Ferruginous Hawk - 10 (includes a group of five on the ground positioning themselves over a Prairie Dog kill ... cool! ... including the local dark morph)
• Bald Eagle - 9 (including all of us bearing witness to one of our local pair "doing the hokey-pokey") :-)
• Red-tailed Hawk - 8
• Rough-legged Hawk - 6 (including local dark morph)
• American Kestrel - 7
• Prairie Falcon - 2

Some of us got to hear Lapland Longspur flyover treat.

All photos here: https://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/258/raptor-alley-nunn-2-12-22

The "other" Bald Eagle show on Sunday was nine Bald Eagle on the 35th Ave west gravel pond ice jockeying for a fresh Canada Goose kill. First six photos here: https://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/65/35th-ave-gravel-pit-ponds-nw-greeley

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn

http://www.friendsofthepawnessgrassland.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland

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