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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

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