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Rpt Date: October 30, 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
Fickle weather; no hawks recorded during last three and a half
hours of the watch today. Monarch butterflies liked it just fine, though,
thank you very much (radar watchers, take note)!
Counters stood a monarch butterfly watch today. Morning brought
an 8:30 a.m. liftoff of between 2,000-3,000 monarchs. Official counter
Joel Simon described one small scrub brush tree near the hawk watch site
as having over 50 monarchs hanging among its branches (must've looked like
ornaments on a south Texas Christmas tree!). Throughout the rest of the
watch day, more than 15,000 monarchs passed overhead in a steady continuous
stream.
SPECIES
DAY SEASON
Black vulture 0
151
Turkey vulture 14
7,384
Osprey
0 80
Swallow-tail kite 0
7
White-tail kite 0
3 (9-15, 10-24, 10-26)
Miss. kite
0 2,965
Northern harrier 0
65
Sharp-shin hawk 19
821
Cooper's hawk 4
351
Harris' hawk 0
3 (9-20, 9-27, 10-27)
Red-shoulder hawk 0
56
Broadwing hawk 0
823,645
Swainson's hawk 0
291
White-tail hawk 0
4
Red-tail hawk 1
54 (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
180
Merlin
0 25
Peregrine falcon 0
68
Prairie falcon 0
6
Unk accipiter 2
267
Unk. buteo
1 17
Unk. falcon 0
14
Unk. raptor 0
210
Total:
42 836,679