Hello from The Hill!
(I switched my calendar and got the right days of the week back (I
hope);
sorry for last week's goof on the first and second.)
Saturday, November 4: a rainout. Nine inches at the park ... yow. Only
4.5
inches at our southside house. GREAT storm clouds rolled in, though ...
a
black non-norther (dark, stormy, but not the blast of arctic air of a
norther).
Sunday, November 5: Big numbers ... nine tv's, that's it.
Monday, November 6: much better day, and nicer; cooler, drier, and a
NW
wind. Jo says there were even birds flying overhead. Go figure!
BV 13
TV 463
NH 5
SS 26
CH 14
RS 1
BW 1
SW 6
RT 6
HH 1
AK 9
ML 1
UA 10
UB 1
UF 1
UU 3
TOTALS 561
A side note from Jo for those keeping religious counts ... she notes
that
one of the regular volunteers lives near the little town of Mathis and
the
Lake Corpus Christi area (about 30 miles or so north/northwest of the
hawk
watch site). She reports he had an immature bald eagle over his house.
A
new yard bird for him. The date was October 27th. Jo's direct comment
in
her email: "Wow!!" says it all. Unfortunately, the young baldy opted to
fly
on through in another area; the watch didn't get it.
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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