Hello from The Hill!

Today's report is from Thom Benedict, and he reports .... it was a snoozer! Not even one bird per hour. Not fun when the mercury is soaring in three digits ... and nothing to take one's mind off the heat  ...

1 MK
2 SW
1 RT
1 AK
1 UB
1 UU

Other stuff:
Butterflies: Mexican Silverspot
Tawny Emperor
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Common Nighthawk

Thom also notes there was hardly a cloud in the sky all day. Is there a high pressure zone
sitting on top of us? Yep. A big one. Temps are slated to be over 100 in our area through the rest of the holiday weekend.

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