Hello from The Hill!

Jo C's report:

Mississippi Kite 74   (yea! We worked today.)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (Scott found our very first)
Swainson's Hawk 4
Unid. Buteo 1
80 raptors for the day. It sure was fun with some clouds most of the day.. Thanks for the thoughts (prayers for clouds). They do work.

Some other HB birds include:

anhingas 200
pelicans 6
wood storks 4

Also: Wilson's phalaropes, least sandpiper, western sandpiper, laughing gull, semipalmated sandpiper, black-necked stilt, willet, killdeer, little blue heron, barn swallow, orchard oriole, ladder-backed woodpecker, olive sparrow, b-g gnatcatcher, gold-fronted woodpecker, inca dove
white-winged dove, greater yellowlegs, tufted titmouse, black vulture, white-tailed hawk,
northern mockingbird, white-eyed vireo, carolina wren, great-tailed grackle, chimney swift, bronzed cowbird, yellow-billed cuckoo, great kiskadee, belted kingfisher.

The pond is low, low so there is much shore bird habitat on the exposed bottom of the pond at HB.

Bye, Jo

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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. Thanks to Electrotex, Inc. for sponsoring our web site; 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.

Cheers from your roving hawk watch reporter,
Patty Beasley, Corpus Christi, TX