Rpt Date: October 28, 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
Watch called at 2:00 pm today for rain. Good flights prior to storms,
though.
One snipe recorded at nearby pond as it flew past the hawk watch site..
SPECIES
DAY SEASON
Black vulture 0
151
Turkey vulture 234
7,311
Osprey
1 80
(updated to reflect August correction)
Swallow-tail kite 0
7
White-tail kite 0
3 (9-15, 10-24, 10-26)
Miss. kite
0 2,965
Northern harrier 2
64
Sharp-shin hawk 68
761
Cooper's hawk 20
340
Harris' hawk 0
3 (9-20, 9-27, 10-27)
Red-shoulder hawk 0
56
Broadwing hawk 6
823,645
Swainson's hawk 0
291
White-tail hawk 0
4
Red-tail hawk 2
53 (3 Krider's subspecies)
Zone-tail hawk 0
1 (10-02)
Rough-legged hawk 0
1 (09-27)
Golden eagle 0
1 (10-27)
Caracara
0 8
Amer. kestrel 1
174
Merlin
0 25
Peregrine falcon 1
68
Prairie falcon 0
6
Unk accipiter 4
261
Unk. buteo
0 16
Unk. falcon 0
14
Unk. raptor 2
209
Total:
341 836,518