GC242VX American Kestrel View
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 02/17/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 50.039 W104° 47.437 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Lots of raptors along Buckley Road. Don't forget your binoculars. Is it a female or male Kestrel that you are looking at? Get out the birding book and enjoy.

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The name kestrel is given to several different members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around 10–20 metres (33–66 ft) over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects. Other falcons are more adapted to active hunting on the wing. In addition, kestrels are notable for usually having much brown in their plumage. Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.

07/04/2019 By mrdiamond
My goal has been reached even in the rainAnd a hell I’ve reached geocache find 1300

04/08/2019 By racer2814
Finally out here with my bike so I hit a couple trails and picked up some smileys. Brief visit to Denver and got out before the storm. Stamped log. So many caches, so little time. Thanks for your effort to place this cache and all the fun I had finding it. Don't Drink the Kool-Aid! Pura Vida! Live, laugh, love, cache.

02/10/2019 By team tiger pride
Came down early to grab these caches, before my wife lands and we head back home. Thanks for the cache

12/23/2018 By mipi13
Tftc

12/07/2018 By Pebblesinthecity
Set out today with NTM at about 10am to hike and grab all 31 of the caches here along Buckley Road. Surprisingly, we found all of them. We returned to the car just before 4pm, so it took us about 6 hours to hike the ~11 miles. Mostly because we saw every type of wildlife that we could have imagined: eagles, a coyote, a fox, hawks, falcons, finches, rabbits, prairie dogs, deer and buffalo. One of our most successful days of caching ever, most of these caches were found in good condition. Thanks to everyone who placed these caches.

08/30/2018 By kkcjrlma
There is no shade out here! Tftc

08/04/2018 By quinnster212
Great cache! Another plane went by. A owl on one pole and a hawk on the other! Stare down! Thanks for the cache!

08/04/2018 By sheepherder
Found your cache. Thank you for your efforts

08/04/2018 By SPat ABQ
Thanks for placing here. We hear birds not sure what kind...of course it could be the chirpping of prairie dog. Getting hot. Here's a selfie if us. TFTFUN SL

07/14/2018 By animjason
Doing this stretch on a 100° day wasn't my greatest decision. Haha. Rode about 2/3 of this before heat, and a slow bike tire leak sent me back to the car. Found all, but one DNF. Replaced some broken containers, and missing logs.

Even not completing this stretch, I was able to grab enough caches for my final Hidden Creatures souvenir.

Thanks Imusttravel2000! Logged American Kestrel View from a ninth galaxy using c:geo!

~ Geocache Find #9928 ~

07/06/2018 By coloReido
Continued down the path to work on the Hidden Creatures challenge. A very nice trail with a smiley here to make it even more worth while. Didn't see any kestrels today, but I did see a snake, some buffalo, and shortly after replacing this cash, a bald eagle! It was so majestic in flight. tft , SL

06/22/2016 By dustyriver
Found with BriGuy on our first "bicycle caching day" A 32 cache day for us. Thanks for hiding this geocache, Best Wishes, DustyRiver - geohooders.com