Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch
08-29-99

I don't believe it!! We finally got a bald eagle this year for the watch! Those are quite rare over the watch; think it's been a few years since we've recorded the last one. And darn the luck, it comes on a day that Bill and I couldn't be there. Oh, well, my consolation is that Joel missed it too, <grin!>.

You know, I'm beginning to get a complex again this season .... those wonderful little swallow-tailed kites seem to like coming through the watch when Bill and Joel and I are not on the hill. No wait, Joel may have seen a few; guess it's just Bill and I, <grin!>!

Well, hey, we're doing our part when we're not on watch at the hill; we're eating chocolate! Coincidence? I think not! We had some chocolate today, as a matter of fact, to celebrate the article in Birder's World (October 1999 issue) on birding in the Corpus Christi area. Case closed! Very nicely done article, by the way; thanks, Downs Matthews and Greg Butcher.

Here's the report from the hill:

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Patty,

Very still with only occasional puffs of air.  To add to the total discomfort of the six observers and seven guests were the swarms of mosquitoes.  Several people said they felt they had attended a blood drive instead of a hawk watch!  Bird of the day was an adult Bald Eagle, found by Fernando and confirmed by Bob Creglow; of course I was off today (darn).

2       Swallow-tailed Kite
138     Mississippi Kite
1       Bald Eagle
1       Sharp-shinned Hawk
2       Swainson's Hawk
1       Red-tailed Hawk
1       Harris' Hawk
1       American Kestrel
1       Unidentified Raptor

Total 148

Joel

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