[TN-Bird] Re: Broad-Winged Hawks, Yard Birds

Hi Kim,
I am always amazed at the spectacle Broad-winged-Hawks have the ability to 
create!  Thanks for sharing your sightings with everyone.  I've always been 
told 
that when "Broadies" are migrating they move over a very broad area.  I love 
going to our piece of "Hallowed Ground" at Soddy Mountain to record data for 
each season of hawk migration, but this just helps to prove that you don't have 
to be at a hawk watch to see migrating hawks!

As late as it was in the day, I would think, the hawks were looking for a 
place to roost for the night.  Did you see anything that might suggest this to 
you?  For years we have been looking for this very scenario so the next morning 
we could rush up to the lookout to hopefully witness a "lift off."

At our watch site we sometimes get lucky and see the really low one's pass 
by, mostly though, we see specks in the distance or either they are directly 
overhead and in the stratosphere which results in warbler neck.

The best way we have determined to get accurate counts is to watch the kettle 
until it rises from the bottom of a thermal to the top.  At this point the 
hawks began to stream away individually and are more easily counted.

Thanks again,
Jimmy Wilkerson
Hixson, TN.


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