Hello from The Hill! It's Saturday, October 21, 2000. Jo Creglow files tonight's report:

We saw a few birds today.

TV 184
OS 1
NH 1
SS 3
SW 4
RT 1
AK 1
UU 2
TOTALS 197

It was only a few birds. There were many good visitors that have returned through busy and lean bird times to pass the time.The jokes were especially good.

Butterflies: pipevine swallowtail, giant swallowtail, monarchs, one unknown (I can't read my handwriting for the last butterfly)

Other birds: yellow-bellied sapsucker, blue headed vireo, eastern phoebe

Not bad, taken all together.

- Jo
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HAWK CODES: BV black vulture; TV turkey vulture; OS osprey; SK swallow-tailed kite; WK white-tailed kite; MK Miss. kite; BE bald eagle; NH northern harrier; SS sharpshinned hawk; CH Cooper's hawk; NG northern goshawk; RS red-shouldered hawk; BW broadwinged hawk; SW Swainson's hawk; RT red-tailed hawk; FH ferruginous hawk; WT white-tailed hawk (non-migratory); ST short-tailed hawk; ZT zone-tailed hawk; HH Harris's hawk (non-migratory); RL rough-legged hawk; GE golden eagle; AK American kestrel; ML merlin; PG peregrine falcon; PR prairie falcon; AP aplomado falcon (non-migratory); CC crested caracara (non-migratory); UA unidentified accipiter; UB unidentified buteo; UF unidentified falcon; UE unidentified eagle; UU unidentified raptor.
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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/