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Coastal Bend Hawk Watch, Fall 1997

Rpt Date:   November 04, 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 (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. Butt, Inc.
            Central Power & Light Company
 
NO, repeat, NO hawks recorded at watch today. Winds blew steady 20; gusted to 35; watch finally shut down at 3:30pm. Even the residents stayed down.

Joel reports he'd just barely gotten to his house when his wife, Vicki, came in minutes behind him, looked out their plate glass back windows overlooking their feeding stations in the yard on the river bluff, and started shouting for him to come, quick! He ran over, and there, feeding at one of their hummer feeders, was a green-breasted mango, a fully grown adult female! The bird appeared four times before retiring somewhere in the yard for the night. See the Corpus Christi, Texas RBA for more info:

www:         http://www.birdware.com/lists/rba/_us/tx/corpus/rba.htm

SPECIES             11/04    SEASON
Black vulture       0        343
Turkey vulture      0        9,675
Osprey              0        80
Swallow-tail kite   0        7
White-tail kite     0        4        (9-15, 10-24, 10-26, 11-2)
Miss. kite          0        2,965
Northern harrier    0        77
Sharp-shin hawk     0        910
Cooper's hawk       0        371
Harris' hawk        0        4        (9-20, 9-27, 10-27, 11-1)
Red-shoulder hawk   0        68       (1 Calif. morph 11-3)
Broadwing hawk      0        823,650
Swainson's hawk     0        297
White-tail hawk     0        4
Red-tail hawk       0        95       (3 Krider's subspecies)
Ferruginous hawk    0        1        (11-2)
Zone-tail hawk      0        2        (10-02, 11-2)
Rough-legged hawk   0        1        (09-27 DM)
Golden eagle        0        1        (10-27)
Caracara            0        9        (all adults so far)
Amer. kestrel       0        186
Merlin              0        25
Peregrine falcon    0        71
Prairie falcon      0        8
Unk accipiter       0        294
Unk. buteo          0        17
Unk. falcon         0        14
Unk. raptor         0        219
Total:              0        839,398
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Questions or comments on this report to Patty Beasley at pbeasley@electrotex.com.