Hello from The Hill!

08-26-00:

Miss Kite 1
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Broadwinged Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 3
Total: 7

As Jo says .... ouch. A slim day. Other birds on site not previously mentioned: least flycatcher .

08-27-00:

Osprey 1
Mississippi Kite 57
No Harrier 1
Coopers 1
Broadwing 1
Swainson 18
Peregrine 1
UU 15
Total 96 raptors for the day.

Joel and Vicki Simon had the watch this day. Vicki found the fall watch's first peregrine falcon.

08-28-00:

Osprey 1
MK 4
Sharp-shinned 1
Swainson 1 This was the one Bill Beasley found at midday.
Totals 7

Jo and Scott back on watch ... we dropped by for a quick check-in; Harold Fetter on site to oversee matters; looking good, Harold! (Harold is affectionately known to all as the "Father of Hazel Bazemore" ... 80-plus years of experience in life under his belt brings Harold to his favorite park each day to check the goings-on). Thanks to Bob Wilson for his help during another swelteringly hot south Texas summer day.

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Fall 2000 hawk watch crew (so far): watch coordinator, Joel Simon; counters Jo Creglow and Scott Rush; education director Thom 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