An incredibly fine day of hawking on Coon today !! Our first 3 digit Redtail day in quite a few years and what a show they put on for us with Redtails in the air from start to finish today ! Multiple times we had numerous birds in one field of view as they passed by the watch site. The strong sustained winds kept the raptors on the move and we tallied 9 species today. 5 Golden Eagles counted today but we had a 6th Golden that headed back up ridge, but not before giving us about a 5 minute study. We picked up this immature bird kiting in the river valley up ridge below eye level. It slowly made it's way down to the watch site where it once again started kiting below eye level. It than gained some altitude and slowly glided back up ridge and out of sight. Some beautiful looks ( albeit brief) at Merlins today, and a Grey Ghost below eye level hugging the ridge on the river side was awesome. Our Bird of the Day selection goes to the 10:10 adult Peregrine Falcon that came by in great light and tight to the ridge on the river side. A real eyeful of this stunner as it glided down ridge !
Non-raptor Observations: Canada goose- many skeins throughout the day Loons- 3 BV's- 12 TV's - 2 Ravens ======================================================================== Report submitted by Jim Thomson (<hawkinflight...>)
