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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Area Borders
These lookouts are along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Carolina
Wallace Coffey
Bristol
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Keighton" <brbirders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:26 PM
Subject: Hawks at last - and still nighthawks


> After no more than 6 hawks/day  up to a day ago and 400 some hawks jumping
> from Snickers Gap to Caesars Head without making at least a courtesy call
at
> Mahogany Rock on the way by, we enjoyed over 154 today, Friday 9/12/03 and
> look forward to many more over the weekend. Another Bald Eagle and two
> ospreys today, one with a little bitty fish - just a little snack until it
> reached supper this evening. We've seen five Bald Eagles and nine Ospreys
at
> Mahogany Rock this fall. This is by no means the big push - just a
> beginning, a small preview of birds to come, Isabel permitting.
>
> Alice and I saw five more nighthawks coming down Bullhead Road valley
> towards the west this evening, too. I guess they refuse to quit until the
> broadwings truly begin!
>
> Check the count anytime at http://hawkcount.org/
>
>
> Jim Keighton
>
>
>


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