Hi Hawk Watching Fans: Here is the Mendota Hawk Report for September 24, 2004. The year-to-date figures are in parentheses: Broad-winged Hawk: 117 (4364) Sharp-shinned Hawk: 1 (13) Cooper's Hawk: 1 (9) Am Bald Eagle: - (5) Goshawk: - (1) Am Kestrel: - (6) Red-shouldered Hawk: - (2) Osprey: - (23) Red-headed WP: - (22) "Hot and High" can best describe the situation today. It was mostly clear with wispy clouds from vapor trails in the morning, then a few fluffy clouds drifted around in the hot afternoon. There was haze but visibility was about 30 miles. Light winds were from the East in the a. m but slacked off in the p.m. I was the lone observer at the tower from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Harold and Violet Larkin were at the gap from 10:40 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. The birds quickly rose up on the thermals and were flying very high by noon, and were very hard to see. Susan Peters from Elizabethton, and Judy Bridwell-Middlemas from Johnson City visited for about an hour and got to see some hawks. The Mendota Fire Tower is located atop beautiful Clinch Mountain, elevation 3100, at the border of Washington and Russell Counties in VA. The site is about 3 miles North of Mendota, VA. Contact me if you want directions. The watch is sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club. Hawk Watching: Catch the Fever. Come see for a cure. Ron Harrington Bristol, VA ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****