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Hawks in the Sky
14 Sep 2003 by Brad Hurley
Every September, millions of hawks migrate from their Northern Hemisphere breeding grounds to overwinter in the tropics of South America, Africa, and Asia. In central and eastern North America, the flights tend to concentrate along the Great Lakes, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Over the years, people have discovered lookouts on the flight path where you can sometimes see tens of thousands of hawks pass overhead in a single day. Mid-September is the peak time for broad-winged hawks, the most numerous migrant. At Holiday Beach in southwestern Ontario, observers counted more than 95,000 broad-wings on September 15, 1984.
Other prominent hawkwatches include the famous Hawk Mountain, in Kempton, Pennsylvania, and a few sites along the Texas coast and in Veracruz, Mexico where single-day counts for broad-wings frequently reach well into the hundreds of thousands. You can find current data from North American hawkwatches here. If you live near one of these places, play hooky from work on a sunny, cool day this week and go. It’s an amazing experience.
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15 Sep 2003 | DUFF said...
Hawks are cool.
15 Sep 2003 | Brad Hurley said...
Yeah, they are cool. I remember once hawkwatching from Mt. Wachusett, in central Massachusetts, which has a road going to the top. A motorcycle gang had just arrived at the summit, and some of them were joking about all the people "watching the birdies." One of us said, "we're watching hawks." That got their attention and respect, and a few of them wandered over to watch along with us, spending about an hour looking through our scopes and binoculars and learning to identify the different species.
16 Sep 2003 | Don Schenck said...
Shooting hawks is a blast ... feathers everywhere.
JOKING
Best hawk story: We sometimes hang a wreath on our front door. A few years back, a mockingbird was sitting on the wreath -- you could see it right through the glass on the door. All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, a hawk swoops down, grabs the mockingbird, and flies away. It was instantaneous and quite dramatic. The only thing left were a few feathers.
16 Sep 2003 | DUFF said...
I did hike up Hawk Mtn in the adirondacks. Didnt see any tho.
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16 Jan 2004 | Joos said...
For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.
16 Jan 2004 | Cuthbert said...
This topic is one we will tackle later in this article, but it refers to making sure that your application and the dock aren't fighting it out for supremacy of the screen.
31 Jan 2005 | compatelius said...
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