Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-09-99

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the delay in reports this weekend; Bill and I took a weekend off for a birding trip of our own. And what a trip! Not much sleep, but tons of fun! In the meantime, I'm catching up on sleep and hawk reports from the hill; and not necessarily in that order! The guys were busy; with apologies once again for quick-n-dirties, I'll catch up the weekend's reports; I'll try to get the season-to-date list back up again starting tomorrow. Here's Joel's tally for Saturday:

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The day started slow with the sky totally socked in, the expected front came through and we then had clear blue skies the rest of the day. Began counting Turkey Vultures in earnest with many more to come. Good day for Swainson's Hawks. Almost everything we had today was low and provided good views.

1 Black Vulture
597 Turkey Vulture
2 Northern Harrier
16 Sharp-shinned Hawk
20 Cooper's Hawk
7 Red-shouldered Hawk
5 Broad-winged Hawk
159 Swainson's Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Harris' Hawk
5 American Kestrel
1 Peregrine Falcon
13 UA
1 UB
5 UR

Total 835

Joel

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