Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   10-30-99

Hi everyone! Here's Joel's report from the hill. A safe Halloween to all!

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Today was divided into before and after the front. Before the front we were counting mostly vultures. As the winds changed directions but before the gusts many raptors were coming by just ahead of the front. A season high of 28 Red-tailed Hawks, many counted in winds up to 30 mph! Also, 10 minutes before the front hit we had a low-flying Prairie Falcon.

53 Black Vulture
401 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
3 Northern Harrier
4 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Cooper's Hawk
3 Red-shouldered Hawk
28 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Prairie Falcon
3 UA
2 UR

Total 501

- Joel

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53...... Black Vulture (YTD: 793)
401..... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 28,085)
1....... Osprey (YTD: 175)
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)
3....... Northern Harrier (YTD: 292)
4....... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,300)
2....... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,049)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
3....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 69)
0....... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,232) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
0,...... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,222) (2 DM on 10/11)
28...... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 216) (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)
0....... American Kestrel (YTD: 455)
0....... Merlin (YTD: 57)
0....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 241)
1....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 32)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 12)
3....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 299)
0....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 44)
0....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 91)
0....... Unidentified Eagle (YTD: 1)
2....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,863)

HB Total: 501 (YTD: 684,139)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 924,945

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