Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   09-21-99

Greetings all. Whie Joel and Ryan get ready for the Celebration of Flight this coming weekend, Fernando tallied up some more great numbers for accips and falcons, and even racked up a couple more STKI's for the count.

Here's Joel's recap:

"The boys had a fun day with all the accipiters coming through. Skies were still terrible, when I went by the site to pick up Ryan to help me paint signs they were all lying on their backs looking straight up. There were two Prairie Falcons today but one was going North? and the other just hung around the site for a while and had no sense of urgency at all (bad attitudes! ;-) ). They did not go on the count."

"Tomorrow should be better, and then look out for the next few days!!"

- Joel

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0....... Black Vulture (YTD: 102)
0....... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 3)
2....... Swallow-tailed Kites (YTD: 30)
3....... Osprey (YTD: 60)
21...... Mississippi Kite (YTD: 5,468)
0....... Bald Eagle (YTD: 1)
10...... Northern Harrier (YTD: 26)
55...... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 202)
25...... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 129)
0....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 5)
0....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 15)
2,852... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 164,587) (2 dark morphs)
2....... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 73)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (9/18: dark morph juvenile) (YTD: 2)
0....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 3)
0....... Zone-tailed Hawk (YTD: 2)
0....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 56)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 2)
15...... American Kestrel (YTD: 53)
2....... Merlin (YTD: 11)
4....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 35)
2....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 14)
2....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 23)
3....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 22)
3....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 14)
3....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 77)

Total: 3,002 (YTD: 171,015)

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- Cheers from Patty Beasley, Joel Simon, Fernando Ramos, Ryan Wagner, and the rest of the HBHW cast and crew!