Rpt Date: October 13, 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
NOW we're talking! One more good thunderboomer deluge this morning
just to
remind us Mother Nature's still in charge, then the front blew
the clouds
clean in the afternoon, bringing mercifully drier air and cooler
temps.
Good variety today, and record-breakers in peregrines and sharpies
for
single day counts. One prairie falcon at the watch, and a second
that
unfortunately doesn't make the count, since it was seen flying
by Joel's
and Glenn's homes along the Nueces River bluff after the watch
closed for
the day.
Species
10/13 Season
Black vulture 0
106
Turkey vulture 330
336
Osprey
3 69
Swallow-tail kite 0
7
White-tail kite 0
1
Miss. kite
158 2,965
Northern harrier 1
27
Sharp-shin hawk 114
407 (broke record for most in one day)
Cooper's hawk 26
255
Harris' hawk 0
2
Red-shoulder hawk 2
34
Broadwing hawk 995
822,344
Swainson's hawk 23
204
White-tail hawk 1
3
Red-tail hawk 2
17 (including one adult Krider's)
Zone-tail hawk 0
1 (NOTE: 1st of season AND watch history)
Rough-legged hawk 0
1
Amer. kestrel 14
146
Merlin
2 17
Peregrine falcon 13
52 (broke record for most in one day)
Prairie falcon 1
4
Unk accipiter 16
231
Unk. buteo
0 16
Unk. falcon 0
12
Unk. raptor 14
162
Total:
1,715 827,419