Date: 11/10/24 4:59 pm From: <reports...> Subject: [cobirds] Mount Zion Hawk Watch at Windy Saddle Park (10 Nov 2024) 3 Raptors
Mount Zion Hawk Watch at Windy Saddle Park
Golden, Greater Denver, Colorado, USA
This is a new raptor migration site identified and designated so only in mid-September 2024. This is Colorado's 1st fall hawk watch. To get to the site which is along Lookout Mountain Rd. in Golden, enter either Windy Saddle Park or Mount Zion into Google Maps on your favorite navigation app, or enter the coordinates 39.7368,-105.2454. From the parking lot ascend the stone steps to the watch site.
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2024
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Observation start time: 10:30:00
Observation end time: 13:30:00
Total observation time: 3 hours
Official Counter: Ajit Antony
Observers:
Visitors:
A hiker inquired whether there were raptors nesting on Lookout Mountain,
and I said Yes, but I was counting migrant raptors. He wanted know how I
tell, and I explained. His 6-year-old daughter asked whether my scope was a
camera, and I explained it was a telescope, lowered the tripod to her
height so she could see Denver so close that she could almost touch it with
her extended hands.
Weather:
The prediction was for 18 mph gusts until 9 AM, light WSW wind changing to
West, but at the watch it was WSW changing surprisingly at 12 noon to East
– probably a ridge lift, and then ESE. The air was completely clear with
visibility to 39 km.
Raptor Observations:
The 1st migrant was An RT at 11:33 AM seen to the West, an adult SS 13
minutes later over North Table Mountain flew directly at the watch and past
at eye level and slightly below giving me beautiful looks, the last migrant
an RT at 12:36 PM was seen to the West until Lookout Mountain where it flew
eastward over, and then flew south beyond it. Non-migrant raptors: GE 1 far
to the SW, BE 1 adult very low over Lookout Mountain, RT 7 including 5
soaring together far to the SW.
Non-raptor Observations:
Townsend's Solitaire 1, Common Raven 1, American Crow 4.
Predictions:
The winds all this week are similar coming from the WSW or SW or S,
unfavorable for any remaining migration. I may come up again for different
winds, and if not, in spring 2025.
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Report submitted by Ajit Antony (<aiantony...>)
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