The team finished set-up and started trapping on Sunday with cloudy skies and some wind. They saw 6 and caught none.
The observed raptors were:
1 SSHA
1 RTHA
1 AMKE
3 TUVU
Weather is predicted to be better for the week, so stay tuned!
Hawk banding in the Cascade Mountains
A project of the Falcon Research Group
Entiat Ridge is in the Cascade Mountains about 100 miles East of Seattle. Each fall hundreds of hawks pass along the ridge in southward migration. FRG volunteers have been counting and banding hawks here since 2000.