Dinosaur Ridge - Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 08, 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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 4 4 Northern Harrier 0 0 0 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 0 0 Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0 Northern Goshawk 2 2 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0 Red-tailed Hawk 6 28 28 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 Ferruginous Hawk 1 2 2 Golden Eagle 0 2 2 American Kestrel 0 0 0 Merlin 0 0 0 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0 Prairie Falcon 0 0 0 Mississippi Kite 0 0 0 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 1 4 4 Unknown Falcon 0 1 1 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 1 1 Total: 11 44 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:30:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 4.5 hours Official Counter: Cyndy Johnson, Mike Fernandez Observers: Cyndy Johnson, Janet Peters, Karen Fernandez Visitors: Only seven visitors to the platform today. Weather: Cloud cover started out darker and heavier than yesterday. There was an hour when we had some blue skies to the west. Then back to 100% cloud cover. Weather station: NOAA Lakewood. Raptor Observations: Migrating Raptors: Ferruginous Hawk was a dark morph. Most migrators appeared high over the western foothills. A few appeared out of the clouds overhead, already north of the ridge. Non-Migrating Raptors: 
BAEA-2. Local RTHA local (6) teased us with hints migration moves, then circled back, almost all were high over the western ridge. Non-raptor Observations: TOSO-2, DEJU-2 (pink-sided & slate-colored), BBMA-2, AMRO-1, CORA-14, WOSC-1, AMCR-2. Predictions: More BAEAs coming soon? ======================================================================== Report submitted by DAVID HILL (davidhill2...@gmail.com) Dinosaur Ridge - Bird Conservancy of the Rockies information may be found at: http://www.birdconservancy.org/ More site information at hawkcount.org: https://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=123 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/2ddf1e42eb0f92bbc1321479f056879c%40hawkcount.org.
