Colorado, USA
| Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 14, 2022 | |||
| Species | Day's Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Black Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Goshawk | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 2 | 39 | 39 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swainson's Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Golden Eagle | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Merlin | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mississippi Kite | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Accipiter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Unknown Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown Raptor | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total: | 4 | 80 | 80 |
| Observation start time: | 09:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 13:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 5 hours |
| Official Counter | Mike Fernandez |
| Observers: | Ben Jacques, Janet Peters, Karen Fernandez, Stephen Hadley |
Visitors:
A pre-arranged (thank you Janet Peters) group of 18 students (5-6th grade) and three teachers from The Logan School for Creative Learning arrived at 09:30 MST and stayed ~3 hours with their 3 teachers. Karen F. (NPS educator) led interactive lessons and games on Raptor migration adaption. Ben J. (environmental educator) had a robust conversation with the students about what makes a Raptor a Raptor and citizen science. A beautiful event. 14 of 21 other visitors to the platform engaged with HW Observers to learn about our work. I am convinced that the sandwich boards are prompting greater visitor engagement. A birder from south Florida stopped by the platform with a couple of local buddies to find out about what we're up to. Last, but not least, Stephen Hadley, who attended the HW introductory zoom meeting, stopped by at about 13:00 MST to help out… and stayed 3-1/2 hrs, the rest of the watch! He's committed to spending a day a week on the hill. Thank you Stephen.
Weather:
Clear skies and breezy all watch. winds out of the NE, shifting E later in the day. Weather source: Dark Skies app and local observations.
Raptor Observations:
One local Red-tailed couple kept us guessing all day. The day was busy with local Raptor activity: Golden Eagles, Red-tailed, Falcon. Golden Eagle Number observed: 7 Details: Six adults one juvenile, all local. An unusually high number of locals for here. At 11 AM MDT, a group of 3 (2 adults and 1 juvenile) flew directly overhead at ~20m, but flew west and did not migrate north. Mid afternoon a group of 3 adults flew north to south out west and with a scope trained on them we estimated that these were 3 new adult individuals. One had a missing primary feather, which we did not see in the first group. And no juvenile. So the three of us made the call for 6 Goldens. A seventh flew directly south alone after the latter Bald Eagle Number observed: 1 Details: Migratory adult Red-tailed Hawk Number observed: 7 Details: Local 5 , migratory 2 Prairie Falcon Number observed: 1 Details: Local diurnal raptor sp. Number observed: 1 Details: Migratory and too remote to ID.
Non-raptor Observations:
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay Number observed: 4 Common Raven Number observed: 30 Bushtit Number observed: 16 Mountain Bluebird Number observed: 5 Details: Seen nearly every day from the HawkWatch hill this season. Townsend's Solitaire Number observed: 3 American Robin Number observed: 4 House Finch Number observed: 1
Predictions:
Tuesday looks good for wind direction, with some cloud cover. Trail is mostly dry.
Report submitted by DAVID HILL ()
Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists information may be found at: http://www.dfobirds.org
More information at hawkcount.org: [Site Profile] [Day Summary] [Month Summary]
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