Rpt Date:   November 08, 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:    Joel Simon
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             11/08    SEASON
Black vulture       0        388
Turkey vulture      63       10,355
Osprey              0        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    2        86
Sharp-shin hawk     8        939
Cooper's hawk       4        413
Harris' hawk        0        4        (9-20, 9-27, 10-27, 11-1)
Red-shoulder hawk   1        75       (1 elegans subsp. on 11-3)
Broadwing hawk      0        823,654
Swainson's hawk     0        299
White-tail hawk     0        4
Red-tail hawk       3        112      (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        190
Merlin              0        25
Peregrine falcon    0        74
Prairie falcon      0        8
Unk accipiter       0        305
Unk. buteo          0        17
Unk. falcon         0        14
Unk. raptor         0        222
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Total:              81       840,256
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Green-breasted mango is still at Joel and Vicki's house;
Joel back on the hill as official counter today.

Mustang Island alert: our overwintering ferruginous hawk has arrived back on Mustang Island for another season in its preferred territory near Packery Channel (the channel that bisects Padre Island from Mustang Island, at the southern edge of the city limits of Corpus Christi, Texas). Also still seen on Mustang Island through today: two dark-morph Swainson hawks and one dark-morph red-tail hawk along with the winter peregrines, harriers and kestrels. 6-10 resident white-tail hawks and 4 resident ospreys remain in territory.