REGIONAL HAWK WATCH TOTALS TO DATE Mendota Birch K. Soddy Sniker Candler Rockfish VA VA TN VA VA VA Osprey 4 1 181 2 75 Am Bald Eagle 5 61 4 17 N. Harrier 32 13 Sharp-shinned Hawk 10 213 9 78 Cooper's Hawk 4 4 69 18 N. Goshawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 1 1 12 2 Broad-winged Hawk 3840 1000 1699 3334 4934 3594 Red-tailed Hawks 3 3 62 36 Golden Eagle 2 Am Kestrel 2 45 1 27 Merlin 6 5 Peregrine Falcon 2 Unknown 2 22 19 Year TOTAL 3863 1008 1710 4037 4950 3888 ----------------------------- Mendota hawk watch is in it's 53rd season (begun 1952) located at the old Mendota Fire Tower, elevation, 3018, atop Clinch Mountain, on the border between Washington and Russel Counties in VA, 8 miles north of the Tennessee stateline. Manned by Bristol Bird Club. (Ron Harrington). ------------------------ Birch Knob on Pine Mt on the VA-KY border. 3129 feet. Manned by the Buchanan County Bird Club, Grundy, VA. (Roger Mayhorn) ------------------------ Soddy Mountain at Jones Gap, Hamilton Co., near Chattanooga, TN. Manned by the Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society. (Bill Haley, Jimmy Wilkerson). ------------------------ Snickers Gap Hawkwatch is in its 15th season (established in 1990). It is located in northern Virginia, on the Clarke and Loudoun County line. (Todd Day) ------------------------ Candler Mountain on the southeast edge of Lynchburg, VA, Campbell County, elevation 1,336 ft. in Virginia's Inner Piedmont. In its seventh year (establihsed 1998) and is sponsored by the Liberty University Department of Biology and the Lynchburg Bird Club. (Gene Sattler) --------------------------- Rockfish Gap is in it's 28th year (established 1976) at the Inn at Afton, located on the southern side of Rockfish Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just above where I-64 (exit 99) intersects with the southern end of the Skyline Drive and the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just east of Waynesboro, VA and approximately 22 miles west of Charlottesville, VA. (Brenda Tekin) ----------------------- Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================