Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   11-08-99

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

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With the season winding down (counters too) the numbers are dwindling fast. Still, it's great to be out in such beautiful weather and watching the local raptors and migrating geese, ducks, and pelicans. Our biggest problem is to tell the "attitude" (urgency to migrate) of our local vultures. Some look for all the world to be heading due south, we count them, and then in a few minutes they return. Yes, we are using both ends of our pencils,

37 Turkey Vulture
1 White-tailed Kite
2 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Cooper's Hawk
1 Broad-winged Hawk
3 Swainson's Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 UB
1 UF

Total 50

- Joel
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Year-To-Dates:

0....... Black Vulture (YTD: 1,331)
37...... Turkey Vulture (YTD: 29,764)
0....... Osprey (YTD: 180)
0....... Swallow-tailed Kites (YTD: 31)
1....... White-tailed Kites (YTD: 6)
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: 326)
1....... Sharp-shinned Hawk (YTD: 1,339)
2....... Cooper's Hawk (YTD: 1,082)
0....... Northern Goshawk (YTD: 1) (1 on 10/10)
0....... Red-shouldered Hawk (YTD: 77)
1....... Broad-winged Hawk (YTD: 640,258) (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
3....... Swainson's Hawk (YTD: 1,231) (2 DM on 10/11)
2....... Red-tailed Hawk (YTD: 266) (3 dark morph; Harlan's 11/1)
0....... Ferruginous Hawk (YTD: 12)(9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM, 11/1 LM; 11/4 LM; 11/7 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: 26)
0....... Rough-legged Hawk (YTD: 4) (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: 13)
0....... Unidentified Accipiter (YTD: 307)
1....... Unidentified Buteo (YTD: 51)
1....... Unidentified Falcon (YTD: 92)
0....... Unidentified Eagle (YTD: 1)
0....... Unidentified Raptor (YTD: 3,877)

HB Total: 50 (YTD: 686,612)
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 927,418

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