[Bristol-Birds] Hawk festival and hawk countomg closes out at Mendota.
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:21:19 -0400
2011 Mendota Watch closes today
with 10,000 plus raptors counted !
Wednesday, 5 October, is the final day scheduled for the successful 2011
hawk watch at Mendota on Clinch Mountain. Tom Hunter kept the vigil
from August to October. Above, Ron Harrington finishes the setup of the
popular BBC display on hawk migration that was on the front row at the
Mendota Heritage Festival where we've been a small center piece for
many years. Carolyn Coffey and Wallace Coffey greeted the public,
responded to many questions, handed out BBC brochures and collected
emails and information on many new birders who stopped in. They were
not only new to our knowledge but new faces for our eyes. Several are
now subscribed to Bristol-Birds Net. Harrington went on to the Mendota
Fire Tower to count hawks for the day and to welcome festival goers who
joined him. Carolyn and Wallace manned the BBC hawk migration display
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival was held just as the hawk count was
starting to pick up steam on Saturday, 10 Sept.
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