Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 14, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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 8 8 Northern Harrier 0 3 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1 1 Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0 Northern Goshawk 0 2 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0 Red-tailed Hawk 2 39 39 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 Ferruginous Hawk 0 2 2 Golden Eagle 0 15 15 American Kestrel 0 3 3 Merlin 0 1 1 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0 Prairie Falcon 0 2 2 Mississippi Kite 0 0 0 Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0 Unknown Buteo 0 3 3 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 1 1 1 Total: 4 80 80 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 13:00:00 Total observation time: 5 hours Official Counter: Mike Fernandez Observers: Ben Jacques, Janet Peters, Karen Fernandez, Stephen Hadley Visitors: A pre-arranged (thank you Janet Peters) group of 18 students (5-6th grade) and three teachers from The Logan School for Creative Learning arrived at 09:30 MST and stayed ~3 hours with their 3 teachers. Karen F. (NPS educator) led interactive lessons and games on Raptor migration adaption. Ben J. (environmental educator) had a robust conversation with the students about what makes a Raptor a Raptor and citizen science. A beautiful event. 14 of 21 other visitors to the platform engaged with HW Observers to learn about our work. I am convinced that the sandwich boards are prompting greater visitor engagement. A birder from south Florida stopped by the platform with a couple of local buddies to find out about what we’re up to. Last, but not least, Stephen Hadley, who attended the HW introductory zoom meeting, stopped by at about 13:00 MST to help out… and stayed 3-1/2 hrs, the rest of the watch! He’s committed to spending a day a week on the hill. Thank you Stephen. Weather: Clear skies and breezy all watch. winds out of the NE, shifting E later in the day. Weather source: Dark Skies app and local observations. Raptor Observations: One local Red-tailed couple kept us guessing all day. The day was busy with local Raptor activity: Golden Eagles, Red-tailed, Falcon. Golden Eagle Number observed: 7 Details: Six adults one juvenile, all local. An unusually high number of locals for here. At 11 AM MDT, a group of 3 (2 adults and 1 juvenile) flew directly overhead at ~20m, but flew west and did not migrate north. Mid afternoon a group of 3 adults flew north to south out west and with a scope trained on them we estimated that these were 3 new adult individuals. One had a missing primary feather, which we did not see in the first group. And no juvenile. So the three of us made the call for 6 Goldens. A seventh flew directly south alone after the latter Bald Eagle Number observed: 1 Details: Migratory adult Red-tailed Hawk Number observed: 7 Details: Local 5 , migratory 2 Prairie Falcon Number observed: 1 Details: Local diurnal raptor sp. Number observed: 1 Details: Migratory and too remote to ID. Non-raptor Observations: Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay Number observed: 4 Common Raven Number observed: 30 Bushtit Number observed: 16 Mountain Bluebird Number observed: 5 Details: Seen nearly every day from the HawkWatch hill this season. Townsend's Solitaire Number observed: 3 American Robin Number observed: 4 House Finch Number observed: 1 Predictions: Tuesday looks good for wind direction, with some cloud cover. Trail is mostly dry. ======================================================================== Report submitted by DAVID HILL () Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists information may be found at: http://www.dfobirds.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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0101017f8b7bbcef-7a6243ca-c4ac-4bbd-89eb-bf5883fe3162-000000%40us-west-2.amazonses.com.
