When I'm down in the low desert here in Kalifornia, I can't remember seeing any during the fall hunting season. I do see a few hawks and surprising number of owls. At the north end of Death Valley NP, I would regularly see a few along with some Golden Eagles. That's a "mid level" desert between the high sagebrush desert and the low Ironwood Desert. Why that is, I don't know. The big difference I suspect is in the Ironwood, low desert, it's pretty tough for them to see much from the air. Most of the wildlife is found in and around the clusters of low trees in the washes. The Mojave Desert, north of DVNP, the it's a lot more open. E
