Rpt Date:   October 07, 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             10/07    Season
Black vulture       24       106
Turkey vulture      0        6
Osprey              0        65
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        1
Miss. kite          8        2,807
Northern harrier    0        26
Sharp-shin hawk     13       275
Cooper's hawk       2        228
Harris' hawk        0        2
Red-shoulder hawk   0        32
Broadwing hawk      4        821,348
Swainson's hawk     4        181
White-tail hawk     0        2
Red-tail hawk       0        15
Zone-tail hawk      0        1  (NOTE: 1st of season AND watch history)
Rough-legged hawk   0        1
Amer. kestrel       3        129
Merlin              1        15
Peregrine falcon    3        38
Prairie falcon      0        3
Unk accipiter       1        211
Unk. buteo          0        16
Unk. falcon         2        12
Unk. raptor         3        147
Total:              68       825,674

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Skies clearing, but hawk numbers still down. Some probably moving farther west to escape coastal turbulence. Frontal system headed our way but not expected to make it to Corpus Christi may push them back over the watch site.

Non-raptor migrant of the day:  18 white-fronted geese --- fall is in the air!