Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 21, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 0 2 2 Osprey 0 0 0 Bald Eagle 1 21 21 Northern Harrier 2 3 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 5 5 Cooper's Hawk 0 3 3 Northern Goshawk 0 5 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 0 Red-tailed Hawk 22 145 145 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0 Ferruginous Hawk 2 29 30 Golden Eagle 0 24 24 American Kestrel 0 10 10 Merlin 0 3 3 Peregrine Falcon 0 1 1 Prairie Falcon 0 4 4 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: 28 259 260 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:30:00 Observation end time: 16:30:00 Total observation time: 8 hours Official Counter: Carol Cwiklinski Observers: Janet Peters, Kathie Moses, Steve Ryder Visitors: Eleven visitors stopped on the ridge today; Marybeth and Greg, Paul Michalec who helped us locate and identify raptors, an Adams County 8th grade teacher, Michelle, Ericson and Andrew of Jeffco Open Space Biologists, and Travis from Cincinnati. Travis located the ridge with ebird hot spot locator on his phone and hiked to the top. He is a hawk watcher from Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania. Weather: If you don’t like the wind, wait 10 minutes. Winds were variable all day, one minute from the east and a couple minutes later from the west. We had excellent cloud cover almost all day, thin clouds which helped us spot raptors. Temperatures were comfortable. Raptor Observations: Most of our migrants were located by scanning the clouds. We had some birds at eye level on the ridge. Raptors were scattered across the sky east, west and over the ridge. Non migrants included a turkey vulture, immature bald eagle, and red-tailed hawks. Non-raptor Observations: Numerous corvids were active, we also saw Bushtit, Northern flicker, Townsend’s solitaire, black capped chickadee and others. We located a large flock of passerines on Morrison Mountain early morning, estimated 200-300 birds mumurating which may have been Bohemian Waxwing, but they did not come to our ridge. Predictions: Storms may develop in the area tomorrow, but predictions are frequently incorrect so we will see tomorrow. ======================================================================== 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/01010187070d83bd-df66d21a-9e0e-49c2-b22c-6e24e3a54b18-000000%40us-west-2.amazonses.com.
