Thursday, August 21:

Zilch; nothing but hot, hot, hot.
 

Friday, August 20:

Slow day at the Coastal Bend Hawk Watch. One red-tail hawk and one red-shouldered hawk were all that migrated through today.
 

Saturday, August 23:

The first broadwing hawk on the Coastal Bend Hawk Watch official count passed overhead today, right on the heels of a triple-header that kept us talking for the next hour:  one Cooper's hawk, one Mississippi kite and one swallow-tailed kite (STKI is very rare for Hazel Bazemore), all migrating through at the same time! Seven observers on hand to witness, with most of us looking at a different bird in the trio than our neighbor, which led to some interesting conversation ("A swallowtail kite?! Oh yeah, right!!" -- "What do you mean, swallow-tail -- don't you know a Mississippi kite when you see one!?" and "A Cooper's WHAT? That's a kite!" .... you get the idea!). We all finally saw each other's birds as they got into the same thermal just before disappearing out of sight. Totals today:

     20 MIKI (Mississippi kites)
     1   COHA (Cooper's hawk)
     1   STKI (Swallow-tailed kite)
     1   BWHA (Broadwing hawk)
     1   UR (Unknown raptor)

Frontal passage at 1:00 p.m. shut flights down for a few hours; the temperature was back up to 96-degrees F by the time the trio mentioned above came through at 4:25 p.m. The broadwing hawk soared overhead 10 minutes later at 4:35 p.m.

Not logged into the official count, but also observed:

     100+ WHIB (white ibis)
     4       WFIB (white-faced ibis)
     9       WHPE (white pelicans)