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Hawk Counts: Mahogany Rock and Bullhead



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