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| Snow Geese with a few blue-morph Snow Geese included |
~Katie
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk, by Steve Thornhill
Saturday, November 30, 2013
End of the season
Today, the last day of the official hawk count for the season was filled with geese! 830 Snow Geese and 109 Canada Geese were counted. The season for me as a hawkcounter at Kiptopeke has been great. I counted a total of 14,952 raptors of 15 different species. Some of the highlights for me include the opportunity to see a Swaison's
Hawk in the hand, counting 3 Rough-legged Hawks, a day count of 230
Merlins, and a daily high count of 1186 raptors. For more details on the hawk count visit hawkcount.org.
Cheers!
~Katie
~Katie
