Hello from The Hill!

Day Two fared much better than Day One ... at least there were hawks! First, though, let me make a correction ... Joel Simon will wear the cap of watch coordinator one more time this fall. I probably gave poor Jo a good scare and a few gray hairs by hanging the title on her anyway last night ... sorry 'bout that. My player roster wasn't up to date, <laugh!>. Jo's opted instead for the position of counter (yep, that's the same Jo we've nicknamed "Eagle Eye Jo" for her wonderfully long-ranging sighting abilities), along with Scott and Tom (ed. dir.). We still have one more counter coming sometime next month so it promises to be a rollicking good time on the hill again. We're all still counting on the rest of  you guys to come on out and help ... there's plenty of hawks to go around, believe me, at all the watches!

Okay, numbers for HBHW today: 6 Mississippi Kites, 1 Swainson's Hawk and 7 Unidentified Raptors (likely broadies, but playing shy, I'm told).

I see from the other reports hitting the net that movements have started up early all over. John in Ontario tonight reports movements of osprey, sharpies, etc. (thanks, John!). Broadies are already trickling in across the south ... well, well, well. Definitely going to be an interesting season. Eyes upward and start stocking up on that chocolate!

Cheers from your roving hawk watch reporter,
Patty Beasley, Corpus Christi, TX
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Fall 2000 hawk watch crew (so far): watch coordinator, Joel Simon; counters Jo Creglow and Scott Rush; education director Tom Benedict.
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The Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch appreciates the many volunteers and supporters that have helped bring the watch into the forefront of migration studies over the decades. Thanks to Electrotex, Inc. for sponsoring our web site and to Hawk Watch International for their on-going support and sponsorship of the watch efforts. Also to the Northwest Business Association, Central Power and Light, Nature's Bird Center, Margaret Cullinan Wray Charitable Trust, the Trull Foundation, and the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi. And special thanks to the rangers of Hazel Bazemore County Park, who bend over backward every season to help us out whenever possible.