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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

FINALLY the rain breaks. Slow day, but at least the watch didn't get skunked. It did, however, get "gulled" --- 4,000 laughing gulls went through the watch site today!

Rpt Date:   October 12, 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
            H.E. Butts, Inc.
            Central Power & Light Company
 

Species             10/12    Season
Black vulture       0        106
Turkey vulture      0        6
Osprey              0        66
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        1
Miss. kite          0        2,807
Northern harrier    0        26
Sharp-shin hawk     12       293
Cooper's hawk       1        229
Harris' hawk        0        2
Red-shoulder hawk   0        32
Broadwing hawk      0        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       1        132
Merlin              0        15
Peregrine falcon    1        39
Prairie falcon      0        3
Unk accipiter       0        215
Unk. buteo          0        16
Unk. falcon         0        12
Unk. raptor         0        148
Total:              15       825,704