Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   11-13-99

Hi everyone! Very short report today; no raptors migrating through. Ryan and Fernando worked their hearts out, but no joy. Only ones going by were other hawk watchers. Two more days to end of watch ....

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Year-To-Dates:

Black Vulture YTD: 1,331
Turkey Vulture YTD: 29,830
Osprey YTD: 180
Swallow-tailed Kites YTD: 31
White-tailed Kites YTD: 6
Mississippi Kite YTD: 5,513
Bald Eagle YTD: 4 (8/29 Ad; 9-22 imm.; 9/30 B2l; 11/4 imm)
Northern Harrier YTD: 327
Sharp-shinned Hawk YTD: 1,344
Cooper's Hawk YTD: 1,088
Northern Goshawk YTD: 1 (1 on 10/10)
Red-shouldered Hawk YTD: 77
Broad-winged Hawk YTD: 640,258 (9/21: 2DM; 9/24: 1DM; 9/30: 3DM)
Swainson's Hawk YTD: 1,231 (2 DM on 10/11)
Red-tailed Hawk YTD: 271 (3 dark morph; Harlan's 11/1)
Ferruginous Hawk YTD: 12 (9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM, 11/1 LM; 11/4 LM; 11/7 LM)
White-tailed Hawk YTD: 13
Short-tailed Hawk YTD: 2 (10/20 light; 10/31 light)
Zone-tailed Hawk YTD: 6
Harris's Hawk YTD: 27
Rough-legged Hawk YTD: 4 (9/30 & 10/1: ad lt-morph; 10-26 fem adult; 11/4 adult)
Golden Eagle YTD: 4 (1 Juv 10/5; 1 on 10/17; 1 on 10/20)
American Kestrel YTD: 459
Merlin YTD: 57
Peregrine Falcon YTD: 241
Prairie Falcon YTD: 32
Aplomado Falcon YTD: 1
Crested Caracara YTD: 18
Unidentified Accipiter YTD: 308
Unidentified Buteo YTD: 51
Unidentified Falcon YTD: 92
Unidentified Eagle YTD: 1
Unidentified Raptor YTD: 3,880

Hazel Bazemore YTD Total: 686,706
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 927,512

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