Sunday is Jimmy's First Day Back In Forever

Bill took a break Sunday. Tami King and Jimmy covered in his stead, and Tami submitted the report. It was fitting that she keeps her records on the Hawk Migration Association sheets as she did in SC when she was a counter there, because this is Intenationa Hawk Migration Association Week. I am putting in her report sheet, here to see what it looks like. Thanks so very much to Tami for being up lately. I really hated I couldn't be up with them to see her. She is such a joy to know. I am sure she may have been as tired as Jimmy. It was somewhat tough on Jimmy, he will admit, being up for the first time in so very long. Wish they had been rewarded with some banner kettles. But there have been no fronts to back up hawks, and the thermals and lift are taking birds very high into the skies. What they have been seeing lately, are very tiny views of BWs zipping through like little bullets. Watchers are lucky to get on those birds in big bright skies. Clouds or not. It's a lot of sky to cover with so few eyes. So congrats to them, yesterday for 33 BWs. And Tami saw 25 early in the day. Awesome job! Here's Tami's report page, and the Blog report:

As I looked up off the deck from home, for only a short while, I saw one high bulleting BW, and one very close one, not in any hurry. Beginning to think this is a local BW, hunting dragonflies, and not ready to migrate yet, because I see one so often. But we see them low and slow on the Hawk watch as well. We will just keep hoping that cooler air aloft will come and push a kettle or two down. Fingers crossed. KEEP LOOKING UP!!!