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