On Friday August 22 Deanna, Rodger, Ginger and I went out west looking for Raptors. We went out Frog Hollow to MacDonald and then south on MacDonald. The farmers were harvesting the alfalfa seed in the fields near the Waterbrook Winery site and the raptors were everywhere. You could count 24 at one time just scanning around. If you looked up in the sky there were many, many more. We concluded that you could almost pick any number for the quantity of raptors we saw and that number would probably be low.
Lots of Swainson's Hawks, many dark morphs and lots of juveniles. Many, many red-tail hawks sitting on the ground, on powepoles, on bee huts, just about everywhere. We even saw one balancing on a powerline.
We then continued west to Brynes Road where we found more raptors though not nearly the concentrations as on MacDonald.
Great birding and fascinating to see so many raptors and we were only out about 2 1/2 hours. Fun time.
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