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
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