I noticed Ajit's post about raptor surveys on CObirds and I'm really delighted that these are ongoing with many faithful volunteers. There may be a bit of overlap, however. (And that might be interesting in itself: verification by double-teams!)
I've lost Ajit's original post and can't figure out how to recover it on CObirds (I'm a tech-ninny), so I have lost his enumeration of the areas being covered. All I do remember is that he mentioned areas that include several in Boulder County: Boulder/south and Boulder/east as well as the Valmont area, I believe.
Those and Rabbit Mountain as well have been surveyed since 1983 by volunteer squads of Boulder County Nature Association, supervised and data-crunched for many years by Steve Jones and then the late (and much missed) Sue Cass. So there is a big databank there, ready to be mined by anyone who is not a tech ninny. There are a handy-dandy pdfs of the totals, trends, populations & prey selection, and others for those curious to peek at the olden (and the recent) days here:
My best to all, and may your yards be blessed with more birds rather than fewer,
Linda Andes-Georges
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