This is great. Colorado birders seem to be taking to the Hawk Migration Association's Winter Raptor Surveys.
I looked at the HMA WRS website and found that yet one more group has done a new WRS for the first time called the Cobb Lake Fort Collins WRS.
Congratulations to Simone Clark, Allison Vogel, Ava Normant, and William Hernstrom who did the survey on 2/4/26 and had 16 raptors.
That's 8 active surveys in Colorado for the year.
For anyone else who wants to start a Winter Raptor Survey under the auspices of HMA, where your data may be used by researchers, check my earlier post on the subject from 2/10/26 on the COBirds Google group
https://groups.google.com/g/cobirds (use this link Linda Andes-Georges).
Here is a link to a webinar on HMA WRS from a year ago which explains what a survey entails:
https://youtu.be/OV5jipnSjEM?si=cbY90wyMCRhhaNCB
Also HMA has a monthly "Lunch & Learn" (lunch of course meaning 12 noon in the East, 10:00 a.m. our time) on various aspects of raptors - ID, specific raptors, migration, etc. which are always very informative. You can sign up to get an email regarding future programs by emailing Julie Brown at brown@hma.org
Past programs can be accessed on YouTube on the Hawk Migration Association Channel.
Ajit I Antony
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