Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-18 and 10-19-99

Hi everyone,

Hawk watch called for rain on 10-18-99.

Fernando and Ryan were kept racing today in the aftermath of a really nice cold front that punched its way down through the coast. Tomorrow should be good, as well; Fernando says there should be a nice liftoff of hundreds of vultures tomorrow morning, too. Most of the vultures came through in the last 3 hours of the watch.

-------------------

3....... Black Vulture (YTD: 273)
8971.... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 13,633)
1....... Osprey (YTD: 164)
0....... Swallow-tailed Kites (YTD: 31)
0....... White-tailed Kites (YTD: 5)
0....... Mississippi Kite (YTD: 5,512)
0....... Bald Eagle (YTD: 3) (8/29 Ad; 9-22 imm.; 9/30 B2)
26...... Northern Harrier (YTD: 222)
72...... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,240)
42...... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 937)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
2....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 54)
47...... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,008) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
339..... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,186) (2 DM on 10/11)
10...... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 120) (3 dark morph)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 9)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM)
1....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 11)
0....... Zone-tailed Hawk (YTD: 6)
0....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 18)
0....... Rough-legged Hawk (YTD: 2) (9/30 & 10/1: ad lt-morph)
0....... Golden Eagle (YTD: 2) (1 Juv 10/5; 1 on 10/17)
35...... American Kestrel (YTD: 438)
1....... Merlin (YTD: 57)
11...... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 238)
0....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 31)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
1....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 3)
24...... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 280)
1....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 39)
2....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 90)
389..... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,830)

HB Total: 9,978 (YTD: 668,450)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 909,256

-------------------

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