Hawkwatching and the Goshutes

Last year I spent a couple of days on top of the Goshute mountains with Hawkwatch folks who were counting migrating raptors. Other than the pain that came from climbing up and down the two-mile trail twice (I should have stayed overnight on top of the mountain), it was a wonderful trip. Hawkwatch website

You learn pretty quickly that you really don't know much about identifying birds, especially as they do not wait till you have seen all you want to see, but everyone there was incredibly helpful and by the end of the time there I was doing OK.  The scenery is out of the world, and here's a few pictures to demonstrate that.

This is Lookout #1, and the birds come soaring across the mountain in the distance right towards this point (north to south).  A fake owl on a post occasionally helps to draw the raptors a bit closer to assist in identifying them.

The air is clean and fresh!  Sunrises and sunsets are very exciting!