[mou] Big Day at Hawk Ridge

[Laura Erickson]

I've been trapped at home all day, and every time I've scanned the sky there have been streams--no kettles, here, just steady and amazing rivers of hawks.

At 04:26 PM 9/15/2003 -0500, drbenson@cpinternet.com wrote:
>I just received a call (4:26) saying that over 70,000 hawks have been counted
>at Hawk Ridge today. Apparently the stream of birds has shown no signs of slowing
>yet.
>
>Dave Benson
>Duluth
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Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

Journey North Science Writer
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Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
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There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                --Rachel Carson