Hello from The Hill!

Scott Rush brings the report today for Friday, September 8th's watch:

Osprey - 1
Miss Kite - 6
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 3
Broad-winged Hawk - 14
Swainson's Hawk - 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 3
Unknown Buteo - 10
Total: 42

Butterflies-
Pipevine Swallowtail (seems ubiquitous around the site)

Passerines and Others -
Purple Martin
Anhinga - 244
Sandhill Crane - 5

Had a bit of rain today at the site and a fair passage of birds intermittently. Perhaps the storm system that remained visually to the north for most of the day reduced the overall numbers. Tomorrow hopefully will yield as well or better. Absolutely great to have the cooler conditions. The first Sandhill Cranes of the season made an appearance in the sky above the site which I hope to be some kind of omen or another.

- Scott Rush
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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/