Hello from The Hill!

Beth sends regards and reports of RAIN finally at the site. Didn't last long, but every little bit helps break the heat wave:

2 Tky Vultures
14 Miss Kites
2 Red-Shouldered Hawks
106 Broad Wings
3 Swainson's
1 Peregrine
1 Unidentified Accipiter
1 Unidentified Raptor
Total 130

Beth says it poured from about noon until 1:30pm (NWS reports about an inch of the wonderfully clear cool stuff), but it didn't daunt the raptors. They still managed to see 130 birds. Other migrants included great blue herons, wood storks and anhingas. More rain forecasted for Friday, Saturday ... Corpus is well-known as a nexus where rain often leaps over the area to avoid falling anywhere near where it's needed <grin!> ... but we have hopes some will leak out overhead from that little tropical wave coming onshore today.
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Fall 2000 hawk watch crew: watch coordinator, Joel Simon (email: jsimon@electrotex.com); 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. Watch times: 8:30am-5:00pm, Texas time.
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Cheers from your roving hawk watch reporter,
Patty Beasley, Corpus Christi, TX
Email: pbeasley@electrotex.com
Web: http://www.electrotex.com/aoc/