Rpt Date: October 31, 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
Apologies entered for any mistakes and typos; too many goblins
and ghouls at the door every five minutes! Murphy's Law for Hawk Watch
Data Entry: there will be NO mistakes in a report when you are interrupted
every few minutes. Mistakes will abound when the report is prepared in
solitude and with ample time. (We'll see! <grin!>)
Other than hawks: a single kettle of approximately 450 white pelicans flew over the watch site. Also recorded one whimbrel and two Bewick's wrens.
SPECIES
DAY SEASON
Black vulture 29
180
Turkey vulture 75
7,459
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 1
66
Sharp-shin hawk 10
832
Cooper's hawk 2
353
Harris' hawk 0
3 (9-20, 9-27, 10-27)
Red-shoulder hawk 1
57
Broadwing hawk 2
823,647
Swainson's hawk 3
294
White-tail hawk 0
4
Red-tail hawk 1
55 (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
181
Merlin
0 25
Peregrine falcon 0
68
Prairie falcon 2
8 (both flew over together btwn
12-1pm)
Unk accipiter 6
273
Unk. buteo
0 17
Unk. falcon 0
14
Unk. raptor 1
211
Total:
134 836,786