Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-23-99

Hi everyone,

Joel's report for today:

Yet another totally blue sky day, we may not have any eyes left by the end of the season. The first big day for geese with 2000+ Greater White-fronted and 20 Snows.

Between 3 and 4 PM the White Pelican skeins filled the sky with over 8500 in view at one time.

- Joel

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220..... Black Vulture (YTD: 540)
521..... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 26,489)
1....... Osprey (YTD: 167)
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)
10...... Northern Harrier (YTD: 270)
19...... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,280)
26...... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,026)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
0....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 61)
6....... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,219) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
11...... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,214) (2 DM on 10/11)
8....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 158) (3 dark morph)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 9)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM)
0....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 11)
0....... Short-tailed Hawk (YTD: 1) (10/20 light)
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: 3) (1 Juv 10/5; 1 on 10/17; 1 on 10/20)
3....... American Kestrel (YTD: 451)
1....... Merlin (YTD: 57)
1....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 241)
0....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 31)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 11)
2....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 294)
0....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 41)
0....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 91)
2....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,844)

HB Total: 830 (YTD: 682,094)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 922,900

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