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Hawk Counts: Mahogany Rock and Bullhead
- To: CAROLINABIRDS <CAROLINABIRDS@duke.edu>
- Subject: Hawk Counts: Mahogany Rock and Bullhead
- From: Jim Keighton <brbirders@skybest.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:25:55 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Hawks are suddenly crowding the skies at Bullhead and Mahogany Rock as
well as at Pores Knob just southeast of Moravian Falls. Since I have
been unable to open either the page to record results or the page to view
results http://www.birdsource.org/HawkWatchResults since Terrible
Tuesday, the attached Excel data sheets are the only report for now.
In summary, total hawks for each site on 9/15, 9/16, 9/17 are as follows:
Bullhead 231, 291, 731
Mahogany Rock 2310, 1397, 1906
Pores Knob * * 2100
Almost all were Broad-winged Hawks, though Bullhead had 8 Ospreys and 3
Bald Eagles and Mahogany Rock had a Blad Eagle each day and 12 Ospreys
for the period. The first two days the hawks were on northerly winds and
the third day on south winds at all three sites. Today the big numbers
came through between 10 am and 1 pm EDT at Bullhead and Mahogany Rock and
between 3 and 5 pm at Pores Knob, 30 miles southeast of Mahogany
Rock.More to come tomorrow?
All of this is still a week ahead of the usual big push, so maybe there
is even more excitment to come.
Jim Keighton
Sparta, NC