[cobirds] Look up!

Just a reminder to everyone, that at this time of year raptors and other large birds don't just migrate over the hogback.  When it's warm (updrafts!) I love to spend a half hour in the afternoon just scanning every inch of the sky from my Englewood yard.  And you have to look carefully because they're really high up -- just dots in the sky.  Today those tiny dots turned into 15 Turkey Vultures, 2 Red-tails, 2 Cooper's Hawks, (although these 4 were locals lower down), an unidentified Buteo, a Bald Eagle, a Double-crested Cormorant, and a V of 8 white birds.  At first I thought they were Pelicans (we're talking just white dots barely visible in the sky) but when I got my scope on them, it turns out they had white necks held out straight in front of them -- Snow Geese!   All of that in about half an hour at 4PM -- so go out and look up!

Mary Kay Waddington

Arapahoe County (but the sky goes over all the counties!)

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