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Soaring With the Hawks in Sausalito, California
You're looking north, towards Mt. Tamalpais. Magnificent vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco are right behind you, and the Pacific Ocean is to your left, but you don't really care. It's September in the Marin Headlands, and the peak of the annual raptor migration has just started. There's a kettle of red-tailed hawks brewing on your right, and there, straight ahead, winging in from Mount Tam, is that a broad-winged hawk? An osprey soars through Rodeo Valley below you. Helpful volunteers from the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory are there, calling out the birds, counting them as they fly by on all sides. You follow a ferruginous hawk with your binoculars, watching as it crosses the mouth of the bay and wings it past the bridge's toll plaza, before you spin around to see what will soar by next.
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