Site:       Hazel Bazemore County Park
            Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX
            27 deg. 51.936"
            97 deg. 38.560"
            Site manned 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, CENTRAL standard time, Aug 15-Nov 15
Counters:   Joel Simon (jsimon@electrotex.com) and
            Glenn Swartz (glennswartz@worldnet.att.net)
Reports:    Patty Beasley (pbeasley@electrotex.com)
Sponsors:   Hawk Watch International
            Hawk Migration Association of North America
            Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi
            Hazel Bazemore County Park
            H.E. Butt, Inc.
            Central Power & Light Company

Report Date:  August 21, 1998

Greetings all,

Joel says the watch closed early today, due to rains. Haven't gotten the
brunt yet from Tropical Storm Charley (is that a male or a female storm?
Must be male; it's smaller than Bonnie <grin!>).
 

The Mississippi kites apparently came in during a 20 minute period, just
ahead of the rains that shut down the watch.
 

Mississippi Kite        396
Swainson's Hawk           1
Red-tailed Hawk           1
        Total           398
 

Not including the lift-off from those that landed last night, Joel says
they counted 315 Anhingas.  Also of note for Joel was his first Baltimore
Oriole of the season. Bill and I had one August 9th; a couple others have
been reported. Not too many here yet, apparently.
 

No telling WHAT we're gonna see once this tropical storm comes and goes. We
wait with bated breath .... !
 
 

Here's Hazel's day bird species list for 8/21.

ANHINGA
GREAT BLUE HERON
GREAT EGRET
CATTLE EGRET
ROSEATE SPONNBILL
WOOD STORK
BLACK VULTURE
TURKEY VULTURE
WHITE-TAILED KITE
MISSISSIPPI KITE
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
SWAINSON'S HAWK
WHITE-TAILED HAWK
RED-TAILED HAWK
KILLDEER
BLACK-NECKED STILT
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
SOLITARY SANDPIPER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
WESTERN SANDPIPER
LEAST SANDPIPER
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
LAUGHING GULL
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
MOURNING DOVE
INCA DOVE
COOMON GROUND-DOVE
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO
CHIMNEY SWIFT
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
GOLDEN-FRONTED WOODPECKER
LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER
BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER
GREAT KISKADEE
PURPLE MARTIN
BARN SWALLOW
TUFTED TITMOUSE
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD
EUROPEAN STARLING
NORTHERN CARDINEL
DICKCISSEL
OLIVE SPARROW
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE
BRONZED COWBIRD
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
HOUSE SPARROW