Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists (21 Mar 2023) 28 Raptors
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Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists
Colorado, USA
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 information at hawkcount.org: [Site Profile] [Day Summary] [Month Summary]
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 information at hawkcount.org: [Site Profile] [Day Summary] [Month Summary]
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