Totals for 05 October 1998/ Season Totals

Turkey Vulture   0/  46
Black Vulture   0/  19
Osprey   0/  46
Swallow-tailed Kite   0/  59
White-tailed Kite   0/  23
Mississippi Kite   0/  2342
Northern Harrier   0/  140
Sharp-shinned Hawk   0/  2287
Cooper's Hawk   0/  531
Unid. Accipiter   0/  141
Red-shouldered Hawk   0/  35
Broad-winged Hawk   0/  11827
Swainson's Hawk   0/  10
Red-tailed Hawk   0/  11
Unid. Buteo   0/  19
American Kestrel   0/  757
Merlin   4/  25
Peregrine Falcon   3/  69
Unid. Falcon   0/  10
Crested Caracara   0/  2
Unid. Raptor   0/  50
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GRAND TOTALS   7/ 18,456


That's right folks, 7 feisty falcons was all she wrote.  We didn't stay
on the tower all day as usual, the 30 mph south wind kept most of the
birds from going anywhere.  One Merlin we saw must have stayed in the
same southerly kiting position for a half hour before working out over
the water.  We did have a nice look at a group of fifty Magificent
Frigatebirds right by the tower for over an hour.  Paz y Amor,  -Richard

Rebecca Smith & Richard Gibbons, 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
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