Hello from The Hill! It's Monday, October 9, 2000.

Beth Hahn shivers in with today's report. "Burr! It was a cold, wet and windy day at the site today. I tried to recall the burning sun of weeks past ....."

"We did the observation in shortened shifts because of the rain...9am-1045am, and 1pm-330pm. Most of the birds flew in the second shift."

Sharp-shinned 2
Cooper's 3
Broadwinged 1297
Swainson's 1
Am Kestrel 3
Peregrine 1
Unid Accip 1
Unid Buteo 2
Unid Falcon 5
Unid Raptor 3
TOTAL 1318

Not bad, not bad. Especially considering the winds didn't let up all that much today, if any. Still blowing a near-gale. With rain to boot. Set a new low today for the record books ... hit 45-F.

Good news on the home front. The Electrotex FTP server is back in action and the rest of the photo gallery pages for the fall watch and the Celebration of Flight events have now been uploaded for your viewing pleasure to the Fall 2000 Hazel Bazemore section. Anyone having photos from the watch they'd like to see in the gallery, please contact me privately and we'll get 'em up and running ... I left lots of room on page 6!
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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. Plus a cast of many, many volunteers, whose help over the years is so gratefully appreciated!
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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 and South West Services, Inc./Central Power and Light; Nature's Bird Center; Margaret Cullinan Wray Charitable Trust; the Trull Foundation; the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi; Haynes Realty; H.E.B. Food Stores; Charter Bank; and Tejas Veterinary Clinic.
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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/