Note: Lost and Found at the Hawk Watch, a nice rubber lens cap (maybe for a scope?). If is yours drop me a line and I can arrange to get it to you.
Thanks to Vince Kloster and Dave Alcock today, your eyes and company were most welcome today. Today Bald Eagles dominated the migration show, and they did not mind the blustery NNE winds and light snow showers at the site for most of the day. Most of the eagles seemed to take very similar flight paths just west of the next ridge over, west of the Hawk Watch. We ended with 15 total Balds with one of the last eagles picking a dead ponderosa to roost in by Mt. Morrison around 4:45p.m., and another looking for a place to roost around 5p.m. as it lumbered along the ridge below eye level just beneath the watch. Local Peregrines (possibly the same pair at Red Rocks reported by Mike Henwood) strafed the Hawk Watch between 1 and 2p.m. Another passed with a nice eye level view close in around 3:45p.m. In all, 29 spring migrant raptors were observed of eight species (see below). The poor weather by human standards made for very good raptor watching. A scope really helps, and improves the experience. Songbirds were hard to hear and keeping a low profile all day. When I departed at 5p.m. the Juniper Titmouse still had not been seen. Seasonal raptor migration totals for Dinosaur Ridge can be found here: http://hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsite=123&PHPSESSID=216502e040f28a1bc8b69174ef46b10c I have some data to get entered!! Good hawking tomorrow, it could be busy. Best, Scott Scott Severs Longmont, CO RMBO hawk watch volunteer. Location: Dinosaur Ridge and hawkwatch site Observation date: 3/27/10 Number of species: 25 Canada Goose 2 Bald Eagle 15 (10 adult, 5 imm.) Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 (below eye level right along the ridge) Cooper's Hawk 2 (local) Red-tailed Hawk 12 (6 local) One migrant was a very nice dark morph. Ferruginous Hawk 1 Golden Eagle 4 (2 local) American Kestrel 1 (directly over our heads) Peregrine Falcon 3 (two judged to be local, pair flew right by station btw 1-2 pm) Rock Pigeon 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Black-billed Magpie 4 American Crow 16 Common Raven 12 Mountain Chickadee 2 Mountain Bluebird 50 Townsend's Solitaire 2 American Robin 2 Spotted Towhee 1 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Western Meadowlark 1 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
