Date: 9/10/26 7:39 pm From: <reports...> Subject: [cobirds] Mount Zion Hawk Watch at Windy Saddle Park (10 Sep 2026) 20 Raptors
Mount Zion Hawk Watch at Windy Saddle Park
Golden, Greater Denver, Colorado, USA
To see hourly weather data and details of migrant raptors, look up this watch at hawkcount.org.
This is a new raptor migration site identified and designated in mid-September 2024. This is Colorado's 1st fall hawk watch site, and the second hawk watch in Colorado.
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.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO THE HAWK WATCH TO ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF RAPTOR MIGRATION, EVEN IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IDENTIFYING RAPTORS IN FLIGHT. We will help you to learn Raptor ID if you are interested.
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Observation start time: 08:15:00
Observation end time: 12:00:00
Total observation time: 3.75 hours
Official Counter: Liza Antony
Observers:
Visitors:
A pair from Wisconsin were interested in what I was doing. I explained
briefly about fall migration of raptors.
Weather:
Wildfire smoke over Denver cleared by noon DST. Winds were variable and
light for the first 2 hours and then were from ESE. Unusually there wee
less than 5% cloud cover to the far SE. The air was quite grainy and the
raptors looked blurry with binos and the spotting scope.
Raptor Observations:
The first raptor was a RT at 9.57 DST
Most of the raptors were seen over Lookout mountain or the gap between
Lookout mtn. and Green mtn.
Non-migrant raptors: TV3; RT 4; CH 1
Non-raptor Observations:
The first paraglider took of at 11 AM DST
Subsequently I saw 4 other paragliders.
Other birds seen: STJA2, SPTO1,WTSW 4.CORA 4, BGGN 2
Predictions:
Mostly sunny with a high near 89F,
Light west winds changing to east winds by 11AM
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Report submitted by Liza Antony (<liza.antony15...>)
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