Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch
08-24-99

Greetings all from the soggy Central Texas Coast. Guess you've all heard by now about Hurricane Bret. Needless to say, during the past two days, there was no hawk watch.

Good news is, watch re-opened today.
 
Not so good news is, not many hawks.

Great news is, one of the few hawks overhead was a doozy!

Read on in Joel and Fernando's report ...

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Patty,

After two days of being closed by hurricane Bret we reopened the watch
today.  Very few in numbers, but one outstanding sighting.

  2     Mississippi Kite
  1     Red-shouldered Hawk
  1     Red-tailed Hawk
  1     Zone-tailed Hawk (adult)
  1     Unidentified Buteo

Total 6
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Very lucky for us; the storm turned at the right time and the right place; relatively little damage to speak of, considering what it could have been like.

Martins are migrating and staging in good numbers; figures they'd come to town when we're busy fleeing the town as fast as they arrive!

We're still catching up on sleep missed during 48 hours of packing up, boarding up, moving out, sitting in traffic, moving back, sitting in traffic, unpacking, going to work ... you get the picture. We're all pooped little puppies.

Sweet dreams all; I'll be dreaming of that third missed opportunity for a zone-tail, darn the luck! But then again, all the vultures looked like zone-tails on the evacuation route to San Antonio on Sunday; or was that just my eyes crossing from fatigue, <grin!> .....

Cheers,
Patty Beasley
Corpus Christi, TX