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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

Rpt Date:   October 06, 1997
Site:       Hazel Bazemore County Park
            Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX
            27 deg. 51.936"  by  97 deg. 38.560"
Reports:    Patty Beasley (transcriber)
Counter:    Joel Simon & Glenn Swartz (Hawk Watch Int'l)
            (site manned 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Aug 15-Nov 15)
Sponsors:   Hawk Watch International
Support:    Hawk Migration Association of North America
            Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi

Species             10/06    Season
Black vulture       0        82
Turkey vulture      0        6
Osprey              2        65
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        1
Miss. kite          1        2,799
Northern harrier    1        26
Sharp-shin hawk     2        262
Cooper's hawk       3        226
Harris' hawk        0        2
Red-shoulder hawk   0        32
Broadwing hawk      9        821,344
Swainson's hawk     0        177
White-tail hawk     0        2
Red-tail hawk       0        15
Zone-tail hawk      0        1  (NOTE: first of the season AND the watch history)
Rough-legged hawk   0        1
Amer. kestrel       2        126
Merlin              0        14
Peregrine falcon    1        35
Prairie falcon      0        3
Unk accipiter       0        210
Unk. buteo          0        16
Unk. falcon         0        10
Unk. raptor         0        144
Total:              21       825,606

Yep, more rain still around - overcast and cloudy all day. Unofficial (non-watch) report of kettle of several thousand broadwings near Edroy late Sunday; apparently they stayed put in the brush, or went farther west than the watch site could see. My money's on them laying low and waiting for tomorrow, along with whatever's else's been backed up with 'em from the storm fronts.