Hello from The Hill! It's Tuesday, October 10, 2000. The weather is starting to break a little ... finally ... and warblers are falling in all around us ... hawks surely can't be far behind. Scott Rush brings in tonight's report:

"The weather today (slight drizzle) cleared early this morning giving rise to an overall productive day. Looks as though there will be a good lift off tomorrow from both the east and the west. We are going to Pollywog tomorrow morning to investigate further then out to the site about 0830 to check for early risers."

Good luck, guys! Maybe Kirk's Pennsylvania Express broadies will finally show as well. Meanwhile, here is the count for the day:

Osprey - 1
Northern harrier - 1
Sharpshinned - 43
Cooper's - 8
Broadwinged - 2428
Swainson's - 69
American kestrel - 12
Merlin - 3
Peregrine - 2
Unid Falcon - 1
Unid Raptor - 2
Total: 2570

There were ~100 wood storks in the area today and a fair number of sandhill cranes. Perhaps 150-200 American white pelicans made passage also. A male American Redstart kept close to the o.p. as did the continued sizable groupings of Nashville warblers.

Chocolate is armed and ready in anticipation of a good day tomorrow, starting with liftoff.

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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/