October 8, 2026
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐲’𝐬 𝐎𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩!
𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝐼 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛…
Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
October 31, 2019
My Column: Counting Raptors — Officially
Earlier this month, I volunteered to be the official migrating-raptor counter at the State Line Hawk watch in Alpine.
I lived to write a column about it. You can download it here.
Download Wright Bird Watcher TheRecord_20191031_BL04_1
One of the challenges: telling Cooper's Hawks from Sharp-shins. Which is the hawk above?
Photo by Steve Seyboth. (answer at the end of the column.) Thanks, Steve!
3 comments
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Shows you what I know, I thought the hawk in the picture was a red-shouldered.
Rick -
Thanks, Sally!
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Great. Way to start off Halloween with smiles. Loved the column
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3 comments
Rick Weiman
Shows you what I know, I thought the hawk in the picture was a red-shouldered.
Rick
Jim Wright
Thanks, Sally!
Sally
Great. Way to start off Halloween with smiles. Loved the column