Report Date:  09/13/98

Back to hawk watching as usual; goodbye TS Frances!

Interesting aerial dogfights today between a harrier that objected to a
passing
peregrine, which in turn whipped around faster than you can believe and came
back on the harrier's "six o'clock" and took a dive or three right back at
it.

Those harriers sure do enjoy their little dives; saw three others go by,
passing the flight time by "play-diving" on each other.

Congratulations to PJ from Sweden who managed to find our little hawk watch,
then added some more life birds to his list. We were all thrilled he got to
see
a groove-billed ani that settled in nearby bushes (they breed in the park),
and
were reminded of just how much we take for granted when he noted that the
ruby-throated hummingbird flitting around a feeder Glenn put out was also a
lifer.

Official Hawk count:
Mississippi Kite                144
Osprey                  1
Northern Harrier                6
Harris' Hawk            2
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Broad-winged Hawk       165
Swainson's Hawk         30
American Kestrel                6
Merlin                  2
Peregrine Falcon                2
UA                              1
UB                              1
UR                              4
UF                              1
Total                   366
 
 
Other birds seen:
American White Pelican  85
Neotropic Cormorant     1
Anhinga                 247
Great Blue Heron                2
Great Egret             1
Snowy Egret             1
Roseate Spoonbill       3
Wood Stork                      83
Black Vulture           12
Turkey Vulture          3
White-tailed Hawk       1
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Lesser Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull           3
Black Tern                      2
Rock Dove                       7
White-winged Dove       4
Mourning Dove           6
Inca Dove                       10
Common Ground-dove      3
White-tipped Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Groove-billed Ani       1
Lesser Nighthawk
Chimney Swift           7
Buff-bellied Hummingbird        1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird       3
Golden-fronted Woodpecker       1
Ladder-backed Woodpecker        1
Great Kiskadee          1
Couch's Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird                1
Purple Martin       
Cave Swallow            7
Barn Swallow            3
Tufted Titmouse         1
Carolina Wren           1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   4
Northern Mockingbird    2
Loggerhead Shrike       1
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo                1
Yellow Warbler          1
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Cardinal       3
Painted Bunting
Olive Sparrow         1
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird         1
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
Total Sp.                       67
 
 

Glenn Swartz
Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch
Corpus Christi
glennswartz@worldnet.att.net