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 3, 1998

Glenn's weather report for today's hawk watch: hot, hot, hot, hazy, no
wind; hawks were high, higher, and faster .....

Species         Day     Season
Osprey                  1       6
Swallow-tailed Kite     0       5
Mississippi Kite        42      2839
Northern Harrier        2       5
Cooper's Hawk           0       2
Red-shouldered Hawk     0       12
Broad-winged Hawk       10      77
Swainson's Hawk         11      77
White-tailed Hawk       0       1
Red-tailed Hawk         0       28
American Kestrel        2       9
Peregrine Falcon        0       2
Unidentified Accip.     1       1
Unidentified Buteo      0       1
Unidentified Falcon     0       1
Unidentified Raptors    0       60
Total                   70      3127
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Day birds at the park:
 

Other Birds:
American White Pelican 11
Anhinga 110
Tricolored Heron
Wood Stork 30
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 2
White-tailed Kite 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
White-tailed Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Upland Sandpiper 14
Long-billed Curlew 1
Laughing Gull 2
Eurasian Collared-dove 1
White-winged Dove 4
Mourning Dove 7
Inca Dove 8
Common Ground-dove 2
White-tipped Dove 1
Greater Roadrunner 1
Groove-billed Ani 1
Chimney Swift 3
Buff-bel. Hummingbird 2
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fr. Woodpecker 2
Ladder-b. Woodpecker 1
Brown-crested Fly. 2
Great Kiskadee 2
Couch's Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird 2
Barn Swallow 70
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Northern Mockingbird 7
Loggerhead Shrike 1
European Starling 5
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Dickcissel
Olive Sparrow 1
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Bronzed Cowbird 6
Baltimore Oriole 1
Total 54
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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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