SITE DESCRIPTION

SITE DESCRIPTION:
"The Soddy Mountain hawk lookout is located in southeast Tennessee on the eastern face of Walden's Ridge (the Cumberland Escarpment) in Hamilton County, a short distance north of the town of Soddy-Daisy, TN. It lies at the eastern terminus of Jones Gap Road atop a bluff overloooking Hwy. 111 and the beautiful Tennessee River Valley to the east. The hawk lookout location is state-owned land, and there are currently no restroom or eating facilities nearby. Hawk watchers are advised to bring their own folding lawn chair, sunscreen, a hat, and drinking water, as well as binoculars and a field guide. Caution should be used at all times, especially if children are present, as there is no fence to prevent a fall off the nearby 75 foot bluff. The hawk lookout proper is level ground." *

No Shelter is available, and parking is on a level below the lookout grounds. The climb to the watch site is up a steep bank about 8' high. Other helpful tools might include an umbrella or spotting scope, although on a good day, you might not find time to use either.*

Courtesy of William G. (Bill) Haley, compiler and author of the brochure, Soddy Mountain Hawk Lookout, produced for TOS.

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk
Falconer Mr. Johnson's Red-tail

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Last Day of September

Sept 30 2024, Sunday, was Bill's first day back from his trip up north. He returns to the mountain, just after the Hurricane Helene has done the most damage to our mountain towns looking North and East in history. Helene dropped more water than has ever been recorded into NC, SC, GA, and TN mountains and has left devastation and heartbreak all across the area. But for Hawkwatching, at least while Bill was gone, he didn't miss any migrating hawks, since bird migration charts from radar, showed all the migrants make a massive shift to the west of us by a lot! Numbers were still low on the 30th. I like to do a little update for the month at the end of the month, so I will include a screen shot of the Hawkcount.org excel chart of the hawks seen so far, both here and on Facebook. The report follows:
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