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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

Rpt Date:   October 08, 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             10/08    Season
Black vulture       0        106
Turkey vulture      0        6
Osprey              1        66
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        1
Miss. kite          8        2,807
Northern harrier    0        26
Sharp-shin hawk     6        281
Cooper's hawk       0        228
Harris' hawk        0        2
Red-shoulder hawk   0        32
Broadwing hawk      1        821,349
Swainson's hawk     0        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       2        131
Merlin              0        15
Peregrine falcon    0        38
Prairie falcon      0        3
Unk accipiter       4        215
Unk. buteo          0        16
Unk. falcon         0        12
Unk. raptor         1        148
Total:              15       825,689

Rained out today, twice. One rain came in, but the guys stuck it out; the last rain sent them running for cover. The hawks had apparently long before gone under cover.