DROPPING 2 POSTS FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

November 12 and 13th 2025 Moderate daytime temps do not have birds moving through in a push. Catching a few hours yeilded 4 to the hawk count:

AFTER A COUPLE OF FREEZING COLD TEMP DAYS

November 11, 2025 Bill braved the wind and cold for a couple of hours after the freeze. It has warmed up mid day a bit. He has never shyed away from a little cold. Why we and Harold Birch have spent a lot of days standing in the extremes watching hawks, doing counts, and manning a scope at the Sandhill Crane festival. For hours. But it wasn't profitable to stay out there for long on Tuesday. But at least the snow was able to clear away pretty quickly. Well, unlike our northern and Eastern neighbors, who got a good bit. ours was a let down. NO problems. We weren't ready for it anyway. I had a mad dash to recover my greenhouse, but I did look up occasionally before the cold hit, and saw various hawks passing over head here in the valley. But after the cold, the only hawk I saw was in my back yard hunting. He was a big fluffed out Red Shouldered. My local that calls to passing hawks, I'll bet! Here's what Bill saw on Tuesday:

GOOD NUMBERS ROLLING OVER - NOVEMBERS FIRST WEEK WAS PRETTY GOOD!

Nov 8 25 Bill had visitors, friends came up. Welcome to them, appreciate your coming. Bill has had a good first week in November. His treat was starting one day with several Northern Harriers at once. Followed by a second Golden Eagle for the year. Plus he more than trippled his TV numbers going into the week. But from our side - He crossed the 3000 hawk mark for this season landing on 3052. We also rolled into 111,000 all time hawks seen sitting now at 111,045. Great times. Great numbers. Here's the report:

RAIN AND STORMS APPROACHING LEAD TO A "WHAT A DAY!"

November 7, 25 All this and Sandhill Cranes to boot. Wow! Bill's report says it all. But first, He is only a good flight away from 3000 for the year. Here's Friday's report:

VERY CLOSE TO 3000 RAPTORS FOR THE 2025 FALL COUNT

November 6, 2025 There were extreme blue skies yesterday, all day. I was working recovering the greenhouse, and cleaning all day, and I knew when I keep seeing no clouds, the report would be short and sweet. I saw 2 locals all day. A TV and a BV. Zero migrating to be seen over us in the valley. Bill had better luck:

NUMBERS ARE RISING FOR TVs, RTs AND RSs

November 5,2025 Wednesday was a 5 hr day for Bill. Thankful to see a new American Kestral among the Big Guys. Bald Eagles continue to have countables as well. Here's Wednesday's Report: (PS I also corrected yesterday's post and count to reflect on CH missed from the hours. total 95)

COLD NIGHTS AND ALL THE RAIN PUSHED A NICE FLIGHT THIS WAY

November 4, 2025 - Bill had 6 hours to spend yesterday, on Tuesday the 4th. He had good numbers and I also saw a nice group of 1 RT and several TVs moving through NE to SW being greeted by other Hawks rising up to say Hello as they passed through. The locals mostly flew North so easy to distinquish. And all the while the RT just kept catching little thermals and consitantly moving ever more SW in the sun. It was a very large bird, thus definitively female, and lots of red reflected off the feathers. The Tail and Wings glowed Pink. Beautiful bird as the sun enhanced it even more. Here's Bill's exciting report: