Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1998
Date:  11/10/98


A second day of high winds as a front blew through and thankfully dropped the temperatures back down to a much cooler, drier level. But, Glenn says that also kept the hawks down and away.

Hawks today = 0

Glenn's Daily Birds:

12      Anhinga
2       White Ibis
2       Turkey Vulture
1       Northern Harrier
2       Red-tailed Hawk
1       Laughing Gull
1       Belted Kingfisher
1       Eastern Phoebe
1       Couch's Kingbird
1       Blue Jay
1       Eastern Bluebird
2       Northern Mockingbird
1       Great-tailed Grackle
13      Total Sp.

Raptor Cumulatives:
11/10.....Species.................Season-to-date
0.........Black Vultures..........138
0.........Turkey Vultures.........4,894
0.........Osprey..................179
0.........Swallow-tailed Kite.....6
0.........WT/BS Kite..............6
0.........Mississippi Kite........3,584
0.........Bald Eagle..............2
0.........No. Harrier.............179
0.........Sharp-shinned Hawk......1,201
0.........Cooper's Hawk...........257
0.........Harris's Hawk...........5
0.........Red-shouldered Hawk.....38
0.........Broad-winged Hawk.......970,025
..........(NOTE: 1 dm on 9-27)
..........(NOTE: 13 on 10-8)
..........(NOTE: 184 dm on 10-9)
..........(NOTE: 15 dm on 10-10)
0.........Swainson's Hawk.........6,789
..........(NOTE: 1 dm on 10-3
..........(NOTE: 1 choc morph 10-7)
..........(NOTE: 1 dm on 10-9)
0.........White-tailed Hawk.......5
0.........Red-tailed Hawk.........121
0.........Crested Caracara........1
0.........Am. Kestrel.............438
0.........Merlin..................29
0.........Peregrine Falcon........161
0.........Prairie Falcon..........6
0.........Unidentified Accip......316
0.........Unidentified Buteo......25
0.........Unidentified Falcon.....38
0.........Unidentified Raptor.....4,377
0.........Season's total..........992,821

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Keep that chocolate flowing!

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