Harvey's Knob Hates the Stink Bugs

One of the things I don't do well is tell the stories of what goes on between counting the hawks.  But at Harvey's Knob, they reported a funny anecdote about the Stink Bugs they were dealing with.  They are begging for Praying Mantis...and offering a free T-shirt. LOL

We had our days with the stink bugs too.  They crawled into everything. But what I hated was the little black crawlies  that were akin to the size of "no see ums."  They got behind my glasses and into my eyes more than once.  Does anyone know what is their preditor?  I will gladly give a T-shirt for that as well. But I will have to have one made. LOL

Where, exactly is Harvey's Knob?  - Roanoke, Va.-  Yesterday they had 12 Sharp-shins, 3 Red-tails, and 2 American Kestrels.  On September 20th they had 2867 BW's.  And on the 18th, 1499.  Like us they've had their days with only a few over 100, or 300 or 500.  They sit there like we do hoping for the 2800 days.  Theirs often show a few days before ours.  Along with a few other sites North of us, we use their totals to determine if we should be expecting hawks in numbers at our site.  We never go or don't go, based on what they see north of us, but it doesn 't hurt to know about how far south Broad-wings are being seen.  Sometimes it lights a little fire under us.

If you are keeping up with us this month, you might want to round up a map and begin marking these sites with a little red dot or something.  As we share them with you, there will be a pattern emerging on the map.  Play along, and see what happens.

In the mean time>

Keep Looking UP!!!

Jimmy and Cynthia Wilkerson

(click on the map to see it clearly)  Note how you can draw a line from one corner of the map at Roanoke through Soddy Daisy(Chattanooga) down to Birmingham.   In case you are wondering, this is a good indication why we expect hawks to run in a SWesterly direction.  ???



At the extreme left lower point on this map is Birmingham...near where Jackie and Carrol
 count hawks at Mill Creek Rd Hawk Watch.  At a point NE along the mountain ridge, is
 Chattanooga/Soddy Daisy, where we watch hawks migrate through.  In the extreme Right upper
 corner of this map is Roanoke, VA, where Harvey's Knob is located.  Can you already see
 hawk watching dotted along the Mountain Ridges?  I will work on getting a map
 with marks on it as we add more hawk watches between us and Roanoke.