Hello from The Hill!

For 08-29-00:

MK 201
CH 1
SW 3
UU 2
Totals 207

A much better day, Jo C says, than the usual single-digit days.

Jo C also says there were actually two osprey on Sunday (08-27-00) instead of one, for those keeping close counts. And, to catch up the day birds and butterflies for the past few days:

Day birds for 08-28-00:
White-rumped sandpiper
Eastern Kingbird
Bank Swallow

Day birds and butterflies for 08-29-00:
pipevine swallowtail
giant swallowtail

All butterflies are being listed, since there are so few, even if they've been listed previously. Dickie birds (day birds other than raptors) are being listed when there are new species, as migration is upon us, and many are repeats throughout the days.

Cheers,
Patty
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Fall 2000 hawk watch crew (so far): watch coordinator, Joel Simon; counters Jo Creglow, Scott Rush, Beth Hahn; and 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