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Article: Raptor-watching just west of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- September 1, 1987
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Avian and architectural drama combine spectacularly this fall as the West's largest known migration of raptors passes just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
From the expansive hilltop of abandoned Battery 129 in the Marin Headlands, at the north end of the bridge, anyone with binoculars can watch this September-through-October procession of feathered hunters and learn slow to tell them apart. During peak migration, September 18 through 30, several hundred raptors fly over "Hawk Hill" each day (between 10 and 3 on September 21, 1984, more than 2,400 hawks passed this point). Fog or low clouds hamper viewing, and winds from the south discourage the ...