Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1998
Date:   11/13/98

Well, only two more days to go, and once again, Glenn says today's report is zippo, zilch, nada on watch. Yet another day of rain. Looks like we'll close the watch in the rain, if this weather doesn't break. A shame, too, because we all know there are a slew of 'tails and vultures and other assorted buddies backed up behind these systems, just waiting for this weather to break .....*sigh!*

Raptor Fall 1998 Cumulatives:
11/11.....Species.................Season-to-date
0.........Black Vultures..........138
0.........Turkey Vultures.........4,898
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.............180
0.........Sharp-shinned Hawk......1,203
0.........Cooper's Hawk...........259
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..........992,829

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Glenn's day birds ..... not; even they stayed under the leaf canopies today.

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Keep that chocolate flowing!

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