Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 14, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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 13 13 Northern Harrier 0 1 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 2 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 2 2 Northern Goshawk 0 3 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0 Red-tailed Hawk 19 82 82 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 Ferruginous Hawk 7 20 21 Golden Eagle 2 16 16 American Kestrel 5 6 6 Merlin 0 3 3 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 1 Prairie Falcon 0 3 3 Mississippi Kite 0 0 0 Unknown Accipiter 0 1 1 Unknown Buteo 0 1 1 Unknown Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Raptor 0 2 2 Total: 35 156 157 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 17:00:00 Total observation time: 9 hours Official Counter: Carol Cwiklinski Observers: Ajit Antony, Amy Walsh, Janet Peters, Kathy Moses Visitors: Thirty visitors visited the top today, bird watchers, hikers and families out for the day. We had an excellent crew of observers; Janet Peters, Amy Walsh, Kathie Moses, Ajit Antony, Jim and Barbara Banks from the early days of Dino, Shelly Conger and Karen, Charlie and Mary Saunders and Mike Britten. Mike was especially helpful spotting birds, finding an impossibly high ferruginous hawk just east of the ridge. Everybody was helpful and pleasant to be around. We had a good day. Weather: Today started out cool and windy, gusting from the west. Later temperatures warmed and the wind was light but with occasional gusting for the rest of the day until 1600, when the wind calmed and a layer of cloud moved into the area. Most of the count period we had nice cloud cover, perfect hawk watching clouds. Raptor Observations: Raptors were migrating today. Many we located along the western ridge, and were a challenge to identify. We had several close birds over the ridge most notably an adult light ferruginous hawk, also a rufous red-tailed hawk and several American kestrel. Late in the day we located birds high on the west but about mid-valley, so we were able to get decent looks. Birds flew beyond our count day, so we stayed an extra 30 minutes. Non-raptor Observations: Forty one elk were located on Cabrini Mountain. We saw many of the usual passerines with no new species seen. Predictions: We expect another warm day tomorrow before the storm on Thursday. ======================================================================== 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 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/01010186e307f85f-aa141d4a-87c3-44e6-a9c9-34a6210fe6e4-000000%40us-west-2.amazonses.com.
