Cynthia Madsen and I made an aborted attempt to head up to the Dinosaur Ridge Raptor Migration Station this morning, but were deterred by early T-storms. I returned again after things cleared and arrived at 11:25 to find that Pete Plage, celebrating Earth Day, had beat me by five minutes. We left at 1:20 ahead of the next storm. In just under two hours we had a pretty good raptor mix highlighted by 3 Broad-winged Hawks, including 2 (1 dark morph) directly over the ridge.
Other raptors: Turkey Vulture: 6 Osprey: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 2 migrating, 3 locals Cooper's Hawk: 6 Northern Goshawk: 1 harrassing a Broad-winged, then flying east (presumed local) Peregrine Falcon: 1 presumed to be one of the Red Rocks pair American Kestrel: 3 Accipiter: 1 Distant swallows included at least one Tree Swallow and a probable Violet-green. Many of the usual locals were seen or heard including a Bushtit. A Say's Phoebe sang briefly and a Broad-tailed Hummingbird was heard by the parking lot. Chuck Hundertmark Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Hawk Watch Volunteer 2546 Lake Meadow Drive Lafayette, CO 80026 Phone/fax: 303-604-0531 Cell: 720-771-8659 cahm...@q.com -- 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