Rpt Date:   November 06, 1997
Site:       Hazel Bazemore County Park
            Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX
            27 deg. 51.936"  by  97 deg. 38.560"
            (site manned 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Aug 15-Nov 15)
Reports:    Patty Beasley (transcriber)
Counter:    Jimmy Swartz
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
 
SPECIES             11/06    SEASON
Black vulture       14       357
Turkey vulture      168      9,925
Osprey              1        82
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    1        81
Sharp-shin hawk     7        922
Cooper's hawk       11       386
Harris' hawk        0        4        (9-20, 9-27, 10-27, 11-1)
Red-shoulder hawk   3        73       (1 elegans subsp. on 11-3)
Broadwing hawk      4        823,654
Swainson's hawk     0        299
White-tail hawk     0        4
Red-tail hawk       12       109      (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       1        187
Merlin              0        25
Peregrine falcon    1        72
Prairie falcon      0        8
Unk accipiter       6        300
Unk. buteo          0        17
Unk. falcon         0        14
Unk. raptor         0        219
Total:              229      839,728

Winds finally eased after the frontal passage last night; good day! Finally reversed the accipiter numbers; got more Cooper's than Sharpies; that's a switch! Good number of red tails for the day count. Still some broadies slipping through. Vultures still in good numbers. More blacks today.

Our regular counter, Joel Simon, was off today, hosting visitors from all over the country at his house to view the green-breasted mango that finally re-appeared late in the day.

white pelican        1,200+
green jay                1
Carolina wren            1
meadowlark
mockingbird
pied-billed grebe        
great kiskadee
anhinga                  4
Franklin gull            1
laughing gull           15
inca dove
Couch's kingbird         3
sandhill crane          68
blue-gray gnatcatcher    1
white-tipped dove        1
eastern phoebe           1
least grebe              1  (first for fall at the pond)
mottled duck
green-winged teal
blue-winged teal
lesser yellowlegs
greater yellowlegs
black-throated green warbler
western sandpiper
great egret
reddish egret
neotropical cormorant
white ibis
killdeer
rock dove               10
white-fronted geese     19
roadrunner
white-eyed vireo
starling
white-winged dove        2