Volume 16 No 1 Feb 1965.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

about 3,000 feet, at which altitude oneor two leaders peeled off and headeddown wind. The others immediatelyfollowed. Their course was about S.E.but mine was more southerly, so that Isoon lost them. However, for as long as[ could see them, they were in glidingflight.Mr.. Bell was a little vague about theuse by birds of regular thermallingtechniques when migrating in flocks,. norhad be ever seen so large a flock ofHawks. He did say that birds frequentlyuse ridge lift when migrating in flocks.A few weekends after my experienceover Toledo, Chuck Ko1l1s, of theToledo club, came over to Big Beaverith his Ka-7, so that we could tryoutwinch launches with this on our rathersmall field. (We. subsequently boughtone of these shIps.) He told of anexactly parallel experience whic.hoccurred at about the same time as mine.A look at -the map will snggest thatthe chances of such an encounter in theToledo area in the fall may be con·siderable. If the. Hawks regularly usethermalling techniques when migrating,then, like us, they will be compelled toskirt Lake Erie. This means that all theHawks from a large area of Canada willconverge on Toledo. Here is an opportunityfor an ornithologist interested inthe migratory habits of soaring birdsto get aloft in a sailplane at the appropriatetime: and place.EDITORIAL NOTE.-The use of therm