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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

Rpt Date:   October 14, 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

Many close birds today; flying directly overhead.

Species             10/14    Season
Black vulture       0        106
Turkey vulture      242      578
Osprey              0        69
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        1
Miss. kite          0        2,965
Northern harrier    2        29
Sharp-shin hawk     24       431
Cooper's hawk       7        262
Harris' hawk        0        2
Red-shoulder hawk   0        34
Broadwing hawk      388      822,732
Swainson's hawk     4        208
White-tail hawk     0        3
Red-tail hawk       2        19 (including another adult Krider's)
Zone-tail hawk      0        1
Rough-legged hawk   0        1
Amer. kestrel       2        148
Merlin              0        17
Peregrine falcon    2        54
Prairie falcon      1        5
Unk accipiter       10       241
Unk. buteo          0        16
Unk. falcon         0        12
Unk. raptor         4        166
Total:              688      828,107