[TN-Bird] Soddy Mtn. Hawk Watch (Week 2)

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC)
Soddy Mtn. Hawk Watch
Hamilton Co., Tn

Monday 9-16-13 We saw 191 Broad-winged Hawks   Harold Birch and Jimmy & Cynthia 
Wilkerson  (5.75 hours)
Tuesday 9-17  Harold Birch counted 18 Broad-winged Hawks and 1 Osprey   (4.75 
hours)
Wednesday 9-18  Jimmy & Cynthia were visited by Pete & Marg Krampee  we saw 171 
Broadie's  (5.00 hours)
Thursday 9-19  Harold Birch and Jimmy & Cynthia were visited by Lenny Kafka and 
Charlie and Susan Corn 
We saw 44 Broad-winged Hawks and also counted an early Red-shouldered Hawk
Friday 9-20  Harold and Jimmy & Cynthia saw: 15 Broad-winged Hawks, 3 
Sharp-shinned Hawks, 2 Cooper's
Hawks and 1 Osprey
Saturday 9-21 was pretty much a total rain out until the last hour of the day.  
Bill Holt and Lora McBride had
about one half hour of blue skies but never saw any migrants.

Sunday 9-22-13 was our best day so far this season!  The skies were washed 
clean of haze earlier in the day.
Temps were from 66 degrees at 1000 up to 77 degrees at 1800.
Barometric Pressure dropped from 65% down to 43%
Wind was variable at times but mostly from the North to Northeast up to 12 MPH
Visibility ranged from 40 kilometers to 45 K and then back to 40 K 
Cloud Cover was off and on from 0% to 5% making it extremely hard to see birds 
in the clear blue skies.

We had  many wonderful visitors to include: Lora McBride, Bob Saunders and 
Millie his wonder dog, Pete &
Marg Krampee, Ruth Ann Henry, Kathy Andregg who drove up from Acworth, Georgia, 
Charles Murray and
Carla Quinn brought her grandparents Martha and Ben Hall.

Jimmy & Cynthia along with Bill Holt counted: 622 Broad-winged Hawks, 3 
Sharp-shinned Hawks, 1 Cooper's
Hawk, 1 Osprey and 3 adult Bald Eagles...SPECIAL RECOGNITION needs to go out to 
Lora McBride who
helped us get on so many of the single specks as well as several kettles.  Pete 
Krampee no doubt has a 
special ability to just look up and see specks the rest of us needed binoculars 
to see.  Marge Krampee also got
on a group of near 100 birds while others were looking at another 100 in the 
opposite direction. 

Year to date we have seen:
1353  Broad-winged Hawks
         4  Osprey
    11  Sharp-shinned Hawks
          3  Cooper's Hawks
          2  American Kestrels
          1  Peregrine Falcon
          5  Bald Eagles < 4 adults, 1 sub adult, 4th. year >
          1  early Red-shouldered Hawk

          1 un identified accipiter

If you've stuck with me thus far, from the bottom of our hearts THANK YOU! to 
Louise Zepp for her wonderfully spectacular
article in THE TENNESSEE CONSERVATIONIST  about our special place we call Soddy 
Mountain Hawk Lookout.  She is
a unique writer and was factual to the last degree in ever word she wrote and 
also the magazine quality photo's she selected.

Jimmy Wilkerson
Hamilton co.,
Hixson, Tn
[TN-Bird] Soddy Mtn. Hawk Watch (Week 2)

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