late report/documentation/hawks+wind Sunday10/11 Arapahoe

[Karl Stecher Jr.]

 

During the wind blasting front on Sunday 10/11, my daughter was driving north on Parker Road.  Just past the Douglas/Arapahoe county line she spied a ferruginous hawk on a telephone pole.  Then more hawks...nine in all. ...besides the ferruginous, there was one Swainson's and two red-tails.  At that time (2PM) she saw a large swirling wind over Cherry Creek reservoir.  I couldn't go until 4.  As I drove south on Parker, to the county line, I saw nothing but starlings.  However, on the way northbound, a peregrine flew left to right just in front of my car. altitude about three feet higher than the car.

 

Karl Stecher

Aurora/Arapahoe