Anyone seen the Harris's hawk lately?

[modise]

All - while bicycling past Carson Nature Center in Littleton today at 10:45 a.m., I saw a very red and brown hawk land in a cottonwood on the west side of the Platte River.  I saw a very strong, horizontal white tail-bar when it flared, and I immediately thought "Harris's hawk".  Of course, it was probably a rough-legged hawk, but you never know, so I thought I would ask.  I didn't have my bins to look closer.

Bryan Arnold
Jefferson County
5,500'

[Patrick O'Driscoll]

Mark Obmascik and I went in search of the bird on Friday morning 1/5 at its previous location, the area in and around the Colorado Welcome Center in Larimer Co.

We struck out.

A local whom we encountered in the parking lot said he believed the bird had moved on. We can't argue differently, and I haven't seen a report of sighting it around there in a while.

Patrick O'Driscoll

Denver

 

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[modise]

I guess if anyone is birding the Platte in Littleton, keep an eye out. It doesn’t seem inconceivable that this hawk would move south!

Bryan Arnold
Jeffco
5,500’

[Ben S]

Also keep an eye out in South Platte Park. Today I got a possible Krider's Red-tail at the C470 area of the park. 

Ben Sampson

Centennial, CO

[Michelle Puplava]

We saw the Harris's Hawk at the Colorado Visitors Center at 915am on Saturday, 1/6. Beautiful bird!

Good birding,
Michelle P
Denver