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!