[TN-Bird] Soddy Mountain Hawk Totals

Soddy Mountain Hawk Watch
Hamilton Co.
Elevation  1400 feet  
35 degrees 19 min. 25.4 sec. North  X  85 degrees 9 min. 42.4 sec. West   
Visitors for the past week included Donald Sutherland who for the past two 
years has been a nest monitor for the California Condor project in Arizona.  
Today we enjoyed the company of Ken, Annette and Alexandra Oeser from Nashville.

Unofficial totals for the week of Monday 9-20 thru Sunday 9-26 are:    YTD 
totals are in parenthesis.                                  

Os     4                ( 7 )
BE     1                ( 7 )
NH     1                ( 3 )
SS    22               ( 26 )
CH     5                ( 8 )
RS     4                ( 6 )
BW    902             ( 1954 )
RT      5                ( 7 )
AK      1                ( 1 )
Me      0                ( 1 )
PF      2                ( 3 )

U/A     1                ( 1 )
U/R     1                ( 2 )

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Total    949           ( 2026 )    

While this past week historically has been our peak week of the season our 
totals have been down considerably.  There are so many variables it's not easy 
to predict when are the best flight days.  However there are usually a few 
reliable indicators.  One variable we haven't experienced so far is a strong 
cold 
front producing several days of rain to back up large groups of hawks.  
Another variable lacking, at least up until today, was a strong wind from the 
North 
or Northeast associated with several good puffy white clouds for backdrop.  
Conditions seemed optimal today for Broad-winged hawk migration yet we only 
counted 13!  Speculation is that most of the hawks have already migrated 
through.  
An internet check of several hawk watches to the north of us, by Bill Haley, 
indicates that the numbers have already began to dwindle for sites in 
Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Jimmy Wilkerson
Hixson, TN.











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