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Broadwings on the Way?
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CarolinaBirds)
- Subject: Broadwings on the Way?
- From: BILL HILTON JR The Piedmont Naturalist <hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:44:43 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
If you didn't see this report from BirdChat, it's worth reading.
This many migrating hawks is almost incomprehensible. I was at Hawk
Ridge on 16 September 1978, a day late for one of the previous record
days of a mere 40,000 or so birds.
Maybe a few of these broadwings will be sailing through the Carolinas
in the next few days. Keep looking up. :-)
Cheers,
BILL
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:24:52 -0500
From: Laura Erickson <lauraerickson@ABAC.COM>
Subject: Biggest Day Ever at Hawk Ridge in Minnesota
Yesterday, September 15, 2003, the daily count at Hawk Ridge more
than doubled the previous all-time single-day high, with a total of
102,329. Of them, 101,698 were Broad-wings. Tim Smart, the new
counter at the Ridge, had plenty of help from such birders as Frank
Nicoletti (who retired as full-time counter this year) and Dave
Carman, and even Don and Lilian Stokes managed to be at the right
place at the right time! I couldn't get up to the Ridge all day,
but from my backyard below the Ridge, there was a steady stream--no,
a river--of hawks beginning in mid-morning.
Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN
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BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
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