Hi, Tweets

For those of you interested in hawk migration, thought you might find this
of interest since it's one of the northern watches already geared up for
the spring migration.

Cheers, Diann

>Well, the hawk flight at Derby Hill on Sunday was not the best
>February flight ever recorded but it came close (Derby Hill is located
>in the town of Mexico, NY on the SE corner of Lake Ontario.)
>On February 22 1981
>there were approx. 350 hawks with a still-record 165 Roughlegs. We
>were at the hill from 8:15 AM thru 4 PM today with SE-S winds which
>were strong early and moderate to light in the afternoon as the clouds
>came in.
>
>TV 2
>NH 23
>SS 3
>CH 9
>NG 2
>RT 154
>RL 121 (30 dark)
>Total 314
>
>February total 504, Derby Hill didn't reach that number until March 21
>in 1999.
>

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