Report Date:  09/14/98

The total sounds real good, but over 500 were seen in less than 30 busy
minutes, and then the rains started across the migration path in Odem
(that's about seven miles north/northeast of the watch, as the hawk flies,
and the general direction from which most of the migrants come, of course).
We probably had many go around us to the west.

-- Joel

Osprey                  3
Mississippi Kite        131
No. Harrier             1
Cooper's Hawk           1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Broad-winged Hawk       422
Swainson's Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Am. Kestrel             2
Unidentified Raptor     1
Today's total:          567
Season to date: 4806
 

Other birds seen at the watch:

American White Pelican  24
Neotropic Cormorant     1
Anhinga 115
Snowy Egret     1
White-faced Ibis        2
Roseate Spoonbill       1
Wood Stork      25
Black Vulture   7
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  3
White-tailed Kite       1
Mississippi Kite        131
Northern Harrier        1
Cooper's Hawk   1
Red-shouldered Hawk     3
Broad-winged Hawk       422
Swainson's Hawk 3
White-tailed Hawk       1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel        2
Ur      1
Killdeer        1
Black-necked Stilt      1
Spotted Sandpiper       1
Laughing Gull   3
Black Tern      12
White-winged Dove       4
Mourning Dove   6
Inca Dove       15
Common Ground-dove      5
Groove-billed Ani       1
Common Nighthawk        1
Chimney Swift   3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird       1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker       2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker        1
Great Crested Flycatcher        1
Brown-crested Flycatcher        1
Eastern Kingbird        1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher       1
Purple Martin   4
Barn Swallow    3
Carolina Wren   1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   3
Northern Mockingbird    7
Loggerhead Shrike       2
European Starling       2
White-eyed Vireo        1
Yellow-breasted Chat    1
Northern Cardinal       4
Olive Sparrow   1
Red-winged Blackbird    7
Great-tailed Grackle    30
Bronzed Cowbird 12
Baltimore Oriole        1
Total   55

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