Hello from The Hill!

Jo C reports another slow day from the hill ... but I hear from Zach that the kites are coming, so Zach, we're taking you at your word! <grin!> Hopefully they'll be here for the weekend watch crowds.

08-31-00 numbers:
Miss. Kites 4
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broadwinged Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 11 (Jo says they were the bird of the day; slow, low and fun!)
Unk. Buteo 1
Unk. Raptor 7
Grand Total 25 birds.

Other fun day birds and butterflies: one monarch butterfly; a scissor-tailed flycatcher and a flock of 35 snowy egrets in a BLUE sky. Ouch. See you all on the hill this weekend; safe holidays for those getting an early start out on Friday.

Cheers,
Patty
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Fall 2000 hawk watch crew: 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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Hazel Bazemore County Park is in western Nueces County, Texas, west of the central Gulf Coast city of Corpus Christi. To find it, 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