Hello from The Hill! It's Friday, October 27, 2000.

BV 101
TV 146
OS 2
NH 1
SS 5
CH 2
RS 2
BW 1
SW 4
RT 1
ML 2
UA 8
UB 1
UU 1
TOTALS 277

Jo brings some more field notes with her report tonight:

"Other good stuff includes a pied-billed grebe in the pond, with water ni the pond these days, by the way. This afternoon, we had a show. Appx 100 BV and TV were lazying across the sky - that is HB hawk speak for migration of these vultures. There were two smaller, lighter - different birds mixed in. We watched. One was a  falcon. The two were keeping pace with the BV-TV group, riding the thermal. The falcon began attacking one TV. This happened several more times to the same TV. Then the second different bird  attacked the falcon. Several minutes pass and the falcon once more goes for the vulture. I'm not sure if it persisted attacking the same vulture, however. The falcon attacked at least two more times. This scene played out along the length of the road that runs by the viewing area of the Hill. There was a local RT escorting the falcon through his territory. The falcon was a merlin. Following this, a local PG gave us the best looks we have had, well almost. Nice way to end a Friday."

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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; ST short-tailed hawk; ZT zone-tailed hawk; HH Harris's hawk; RL rough-legged hawk; GE golden eagle; AK American kestrel; ML merlin; PG peregrine falcon; PR prairie falcon; AP aplomado falcon; CC crested caracara; 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/