Hello from The Hill!

August 24:

Miss Kite 83
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red Shoulder Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 4
UB 2
Totals 93 for the day

August 25:

Miss Kite 343
Swainson's Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Totals 348 for the day

It sure was exciting to have the 343 in one kettle and stream. There were several anhingas traveling with the mk's.

Other birds and butterflies:
yellow-breasted chat
buff bellied hummer
black and white warbler
brown crested flycatcher
mourning warbler female

A tawny emperor and ghost brimstone were two butterflies for the 25th.

- Jo C.

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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.
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To find Hazel Bazemore County Park, take FM624 west from SH77 for about 1 mile to the road on the right with a park sign marking it (past a Dollar Store and cancer treatment center, on the right). The park road is just on the west side of the water canal that crosses FM624. Across the street is a car wash. Turn north and take the park road; go one half mile to the park entrance gate. To reach the fall hawk watching spot, take the park entrance, make a left as soon as you get across the speed bump, and follow the winding road to the crest of the hill (past the restrooms, a covered picnic pavilion and around the next bend). Where the road makes a bend to the left, start looking for a place to park.
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Cheers from your roving hawk watch reporter,
Patty Beasley, Corpus Christi, TX