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 27, 1998
 

Greetings! Joel says Lots of B L U E sky today, tough hawk watching conditions. Thanks to the good eyes of David Olovsky we added two more Swallow-tails, the first Doris Harmonson had ever seen at the hawk watch. It's always fun to see the long-termers finally get a new bird. Doris has been taking part in the hawkwatch for nearly a decade. Way to go, Doris!

Broadies and Swainson's are running neck and neck.

Oh, a revision to yesterday's numbers for us number-crunchers: Mississippi kites should have read 208 instead of 210. My fault; brain surge. Totals have been adjusted as needed on the web page archives.

Species              Day     Season
Osprey                1         3
Swallow-tailed Kite   2         5
Mississippi Kite      105       1566
Cooper's Hawk         1         2
Red-shouldered Hawk   1         9
Broad-winged Hawk     37        46
Swainson's Hawk       5         40
White-tailed Hawk     0         1
Red-tailed Hawk       1         21
American Kestrel      0         2
Unidentified Raptors  0         12
Total                 153       1707

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Daily reports for Texas hawk watches are archived on the Texas Hawk Watch pages of the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi's web site:

 http://www.electrotex.com/aoc/
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Non-raptor Species Day List
Date:   August 27, 1998

Hi everyone! Well, those swallow-tailed kites continue to come through
Hazel's Hawk Watch. I tell you, this time of year, it gets harder and
harder each year to get up and go to the daily grind that pays the bills,
and miss all these wonderful migrants! Fortunately, a few more folks are
getting out to the watch to see them (and, more importantly, to help keep
the full-time counters company)!

Glenn's changed up the database to eliminate those question marks (we just
wanted to see who was actually reading these lists, ha!). If the bird is
listed, it was seen. Numbers aren't kept for each species unless notable
(or unless the counter wants to!).

Migrants continue to come in and mix with the diverse residents; there's
always something to see at Hazel.

Enjoy!

-- Patty
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>AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
>ANHINGA                         280
>WOOD STORK                      9
>BLACK VULTURE
>TURKEY VULTURE
>OSPREY
>SWALLOW-TAILED KITE             2
>MISSISSIPPI KITE
>COOPER'S HAWK
>RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
>BROAD-WINGED HAWK
>SWAINSON'S HAWK
>WHITE-TAILED HAWK
>RED-TAILED HAWK
>KILLDEER
>BLACK-NECKED STILT
>LESSER YELLOWLEGS
>UPLAND SANDPIPER                14
>LONG-BILLED CURLEW
>LAUGHING GULL
>FORSTER'S TERN
>WHITE-WINGED DOVE
>MOURNING DOVE
>INCA DOVE
>COMMON GROUND-DOVE
>WHITE-TIPPED DOVE
>GREATER ROADRUNNER
>RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
>GOLDEN-FRONTED WOODPECKER
>LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER
>GREAT KISKADEE
>COUCH'S KINGBIRD
>PURPLE MARTIN
>TREE SWALLOW
>CAVE SWALLOW
>BARN SWALLOW
>CAROLINA WREN
>BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
>NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD
>WHITE-EYED VIREO
>NORTHERN CARDINAL
>DICKCISSEL
>OLIVE SPARROW
>BRONZED COWBIRD
>ORCHARD ORIOLE
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Questions and comments on this list to:

Glenn Swartz
Coastal Bend Records Compiler
Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch
Corpus Christi, TX
Email: glennswartz@worldnet.att.net
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Daily reports for the various Texas hawk watches are archived on the Texas
Hawk Watch pages of the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi's web site: