Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-27-99

Hi everyone! Here's Joel's report from the hill:

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The weather was perfect, wonderful white puffy clouds, a light cool breeze,
and the clearest skies we have had all season......but few hawks. The
Green Jays and Kiskadees were really active and "Blondie", a resident
Red-tailed Hawk, continues to hunt ground squirrels.

3 Black Vulture
148 Turkey Vulture
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Swainson's Hawk
5 Red-tailed Hawk
1 American Kestrel
3 UR

Total 163

- Joel

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3....... Black Vulture (YTD: 600)
148..... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 27,377)
0....... Osprey (YTD: 169)
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)
5....... Northern Harrier (YTD: 288)
1....... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,293)
1....... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,045)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
2....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 63)
0....... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,232) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
1,...... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,221) (2 DM on 10/11)
5....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 181) (3 dark morph)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 9)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM)
0....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 12)
0....... Short-tailed Hawk (YTD: 1) (10/20 light)
0....... Zone-tailed Hawk (YTD: 6)
0....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 20)
0....... Rough-legged Hawk (YTD: 3) (9/30 & 10/1: ad lt-morph; 10-26 fem adult)
0....... Golden Eagle (YTD: 4) (1 Juv 10/5; 1 on 10/17; 1 on 10/20)
1....... American Kestrel (YTD: 455)
0....... Merlin (YTD: 57)
0....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 241)
0....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 31)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 12)
0....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 295)
0....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 44)
0....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 91)
0....... Unidentified Eagle (YTD: 1)
3....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,861)

HB Total: 163 (YTD: 683,171)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 923,977

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