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:  September 1, 1998

Glenn reports raptor numbers today were on the slow side; winds were definitely on the higher side. First harriers of the year came through. Also the first group of white pelicans.

Species  Day Season
Osprey   0 5
Swallow-tailed Kite  0 5
Mississippi Kite  128  2792
Northern Harrier 2 2
Cooper's Hawk  0 2
Red-shouldered Hawk  0  11
Broad-winged Hawk  1  52
Swainson's Hawk  1  64
White-tailed Hawk 0 1
Red-tailed Hawk  2  26
American Kestrel 3 5
Unidentified Buteo 0 1
Unidentified Raptors  3  50
Total    140  3016

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Daily reports for the various Texas hawk watches (including non-raptor day bird lists for the Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch) are archived on the Texas Hawk Watch pages of the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi's web site at:

 http://www.electrotex.com/aoc/
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Non-raptor day birds:

American White Pelican 130
Anhinga 127
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1
Reddish Egret 2
Green Heron 1
White Ibis 4
Wood Stork 100
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 2
Red-Shouldered Hawk 2
White-Tailed Hawk 2
Killdeer 1
Upland Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
White-Winged Dove 3
Mourning Dove 2
Inca Dove 9
Common Ground-Dove 2
White-Tipped Dove 1
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Chimney Swift 2
Buff-Bellied Hummingbird 1
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird 3
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker 2
Ladder-Backed Woodpecker 1
Great Kiskadee 1
Couch's Kingbird 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Cave Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 7
Carolina Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
Curve-Billed Thrasher 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1
European Starling 10
White-Eyed Vireo 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-Breasted Chat 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Bronzed Cowbird 13
Baltimore Oriole 4