Totals for 24 August 1998/ Season Totals
Osprey 0/ 2
Swallow-tailed Kite 1/ 11
White-tailed Kite 0/ 2
Mississippi Kite 1/ 179
Broad-winged Hawk 61/ 306
Swainson's Hawk 0/ 3
Unid. buteo 5/ 12
American Kestrel 1/ 1
Peregrine Falcon 0/ 1
Crested Caracara 0/ 1
Unidentified raptor 4/ 5
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GRAND TOTAL 73/ 523
Finally a beautiful sunny day! We were expecting a little more in
the way
of raptor numbers, but definitely cannot complain.Today we noted
that the
Broad-wingeds were on the feisty side - lots of chasing one another,
swooping & dive-bombing. Could they be happy to see the sun
as well? Any
ideas or similar observations?
Rebecca Smith & Steve Seibel, Smith Point Hawk Watchers for
the
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory http://www.nol.net/~criley
SPHW is sponsored by GCBO, Ornithology Group-ONC, TPWD, HawkWatch
Int'l.,
and the Exxon Baytown
Use of computer provided by Tx PIF, TPWD, and Compaq Computer Corp