Do You Get Excited To See Them Or NOT

October 10, 2025 Welcome to Kim Tyler, who is returning this year once she found us. Yay! Well, I can just imagine seeing what otherwise would be exciting birds for most poeple to see generally, and just getting frustrated when so many are going North instead of in Migration MODE. Yes we do vet the birds we see, for Migratory behavoir. I have listed on here before the indications we consider when counting the birds we believe to be actually migrating. It is a thing that some of the Northern hawks will come this far south and spend the winter with us. Eagles have been known to fly off our ridges about 7am in unbelievable numbers- 15 to 20 on counts designated specifically for making that a known truth. So do you take numbers off the count because you see several of a species fly North. NOPE. Because there were always those "local" hawks here and possibly nesting etc. since the first of the year in some cases, as with Eagles. There are at least as many locals as Bill counted, but couldn't put on the migration count on any given day. It is only unusual that he saw so many of them on this day traveling north. If you are there to see hawks, how exciting! If you are there to count the ones going Southwest, not so much. LOL Here's the count for Friday!