Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   11-06-99

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

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Gentle breezes, gentle sunshine, and gentle numbers of migrating raptors.
How can so beautiful of a day produce such disappointing numbers?

17 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
2 Harris' Hawk
2 UB

Total 27

- Joel

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Year-To-Dates:

0....... Black Vulture (YTD: 1,331)
17...... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 29,659)
1....... Osprey (YTD: 180)
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)
1....... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,336)
1....... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,077)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
1....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 77)
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)
2....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 257) (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)
2....... Harris's Hawk (YTD: 26)
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)
2....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 48)
0....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 91)
0....... Unidentified Eagle (YTD: 1)
0....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,876)

HB Total: 27 (YTD: 686,473)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 927,282

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