Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   11-05-99

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

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Only ten more days for this season's hawk watch. Things really slowed down today with only three species, and not many of them. But it was another beautiful day. The first Hooded Mergansers of this season showed up at the pond.

3 Black Vulture
36 Turkey Vulture
3 Red-tailed Hawk

Total 42

- Joel

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Year-To-Dates:

3....... Black Vulture (YTD: 1,331)
36...... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 29,642)
0....... Osprey (YTD: 179)
0....... Swallow-tailed Kites (YTD: 31)
0....... White-tailed Kites (YTD: 5)
0....... Mississippi Kite (YTD: 5,512)
0....... Bald Eagle (YTD: 4) (8/29 Ad; 9-22 imm.; 9/30 B2l; 11/4 imm)
0....... Northern Harrier (YTD: 324)
0....... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,335)
0....... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,076)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
0....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 76)
0....... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,256) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
0....... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,228) (2 DM on 10/11)
3....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 255) (3 dark morph; Harlan's 11/1)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 11)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM, 11/1 LM; 11/4 LM
0....... White-tailed Hawk (YTD: 13)
0....... Short-tailed Hawk (YTD: 2) (10/20 light; 10/31 light)
0....... Zone-tailed Hawk (YTD: 6)
0....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 24)
0....... Rough-legged Hawk (YTD: 3) (9/30 & 10/1: ad lt-morph; 10-26 fem adult; 11/4 adult)
0....... Golden Eagle (YTD: 4) (1 Juv 10/5; 1 on 10/17; 1 on 10/20)
0....... American Kestrel (YTD: 459)
0....... Merlin (YTD: 57)
0....... Peregrine Falcon (YTD: 241)
0....... Prairie Falcon (YTD: 32)
0....... Aplomado Falcon (YTD: 1)
0....... Crested Caracara (YTD: 12)
0....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 307)
0....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 46)
0....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 91)
0....... Unidentified Eagle (YTD: 1)
0....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,876)

HB Total: 42 (YTD: 686,449)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 927,255

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