Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch, Fall 1999
Date:   11-15-99

Hi everyone! Well, here it is; our final day of the official fall 1999 watch. Bittersweet as always ... we're sad to see it end, but very glad to see it end, so the counters can re-generate eyeballs, etc. for the next one! Fernando and Ryan; thank you again for all your help. Joel, as always .... an exemplary job! Here's Joel's final report for the season:

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The last day of the season was certainly better than the last week or so. Beautiful weather, some good birds, and nine of the dedicated group to visit with. Lots of hugs and handshakes to Fernando and Ryan as they are leaving tomorrow. They both say goodbye to all the great people they met on the watch this season. It is somehow appropriate that the bird of the day was a Prairie Falcon.

In the next week or so I will post a recap of the 1999 season. My thanks to all, counters, volunteers, and visitors who made this a season to remember.

67 Black Vulture
167 Turkey Vulture
3 Northern Harrier
4 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Swainson's Hawk
6 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Prairie Falcon

Total 252

Joel

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Year-To-Dates:

Black Vulture YTD: 1,398
Turkey Vulture YTD: 30,029
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: 331
Sharp-shinned Hawk YTD: 1,349
Cooper's Hawk YTD: 1,090
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: 1,232 (2 DM on 10/11)
Red-tailed Hawk YTD: 281 (3 dark morph; Harlan's 11/1)
Ferruginous Hawk YTD: 14 (9/18: DM juv, 9/23 DM, 11/1 LM; 11/4 LM; 11/7 LM; 11/14 2DM)
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: 460
Merlin YTD: 57
Peregrine Falcon YTD: 241
Prairie Falcon YTD: 33
Aplomado Falcon YTD: 1
Crested Caracara YTD: 18
Unidentified Accipiter YTD: 309
Unidentified Buteo YTD: 51
Unidentified Falcon YTD: 92
Unidentified Eagle YTD: 1
Unidentified Raptor YTD: 3,883

Hazel Bazemore YTD Total: 687,003
+ Three Satellite sites, four days each, total:  240,806 (incl. 1 BE and 11 BW-DM)
= Coastal Bend Hawk Watch grand total: 927,809

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