Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1998

Report Date:  11/01/98

Glenn's back on watch this week; says the day started out cloudy and gray. At 11:00 am rain shut down the hawk watch for two hours. By 2 pm the sky started to clear and by 3 pm it was a clear blue sky.

How about that blast of cool air ... finally! Maybe we'll get a nice little push of raptors from it ...

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Species.................Today...(Season-to-date)
Black Vultures..........0.......(111)
Turkey Vultures.........32......(3,774)
Osprey..................0.......(178)
Swallow-tailed Kite.....0.......(6)
WT/BS Kite..............0.......(6)
Mississippi Kite........0.......(3,583)
Bald Eagle..............0.......(2)
No. Harrier.............1.......(173)
Sharp-shinned Hawk......2.......(1,172)
Cooper's Hawk...........0.......(245)
Harris's Hawk...........0.......(5)
Red-shouldered Hawk.....0.......(38)
Broad-winged Hawk.......0.......(987,220)
................................(NOTE: 1 dm on 9-27, 13 on 10-8)
................................(NOTE: 184 dm on 10-9!)
................................(NOTE: 15 dm on 10-10!)
Swainson's Hawk.........0.......(6,781)
................................(NOTE: 1 dm on 10-3
................................(NOTE: 1 choc morph 10-7)
................................(NOTE: 1 dm on 10-9)
White-tailed Hawk.......0.......(4)
Red-tailed Hawk.........0.......(119)
Crested Caracara........0.......(1)
Am. Kestrel.............0.......(436)
Merlin..................0.......(29)
Peregrine Falcon........0.......(160)
Prairie Falcon..........0.......(6)
Unidentified Accip......1.......(304)
Unidentified Buteo......0.......(25)
Unidentified Falcon.....0.......(37)
Unidentified Raptor.....0.......(4,368)
Today's total...........36......(1,008,783)

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Glenn's Dicky birds ... they'rrrrre baa-aaaack!

1       Great Blue Heron
1       Great Egret
4       Black Vulture
60      Turkey Vulture
2       Northern Harrier
3       Sharp-shinned Hawk
2       Red-tailed Hawk
1       Killdeer
8       Laughing Gull
9       Inca Dove
1       Belted Kingfisher
1       Golden-fronted Woodpecker
3       Eastern Phoebe
27      Barn Swallow
3       Green Jay
1       Carolina Wren
2       Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4       Northern Mockingbird
2       Northern Cardinal
3       Red-winged Blackbird
15      Great-tailed Grackle
50+     Brown-headed Cowbird
22      Total Sp.

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Keep that chocolate flowing!

- Patty Beasley, Joel Simon, Glenn Swartz and Greg Rider