Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-05-99

Hi everyone,

Joel reports Fernando and Ryan had a good day on the hill with several "kettles" of broadwings and lots of activity almost all day. The best birds were a juvenile Ferruginous Hawk and a juvenile Golden Eagle. The eagle was the 26th species of raptor this year.

Here's the count for today:

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0....... Black Vulture (YTD: 103)
0....... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 164)
2....... Osprey (YTD: 143)
0....... Swallow-tailed Kites (YTD: 31)
0....... White-tailed Kites (YTD: 4)
1....... Mississippi Kite (YTD: 5,512)
0....... Bald Eagle (YTD: 3) (8/29 Ad; 9-22 imm.; 9/30 B2)
11...... Northern Harrier (YTD: 150)
37...... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 872)
47...... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 559)
0....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 28)
10120... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 635,508) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
3....... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 188)
2....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 80) (3 dark morph)
1....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 7)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM)
0....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 7)
0....... Zone-tailed Hawk (YTD: 4)
0....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 15)
0....... Rough-legged Hawk (YTD: 2) (9/30 & 10/1: ad lt-morph)
1....... Golden Eagle (YTD: 1)
21...... American Kestrel (YTD: 268)
1....... Merlin (YTD: 27)
8....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 158)
0....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 31)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 2)
11...... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 148)
3....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 28)
5....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 57)
13...... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,264)

HB Total: 10,287 (YTD: 647,371)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 888,177

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