Date: 09/27/2002

Number: 1

Ten to twenty thousand hawks (mostly broadwings) have been migrating over us towards the Corpus Christi Hawkwatch site (seventy miles south) and then to points very far south. The sky has been so clear and so high after Fay, Isidore, and a cold front that without "polaroids" nothing can be seen ... we await clouds and one of those "hundred thousand hawks" days. After three weeks of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds stacking up along the coast waiting to jump off across the Gulf to the Yucatan, the backyard has really quieted down. We hope all those hummers that showed up last weekend and might have run into Isidore were successful in their 540 mile trip across the Gulf. Scissor-tailed flycatchers have been staging in numbers (three to five side by side in some swags of hi-lines) in their annual southbound migration. The only thing that beats their chatter at daybreak is the neighborhood mockingbird. A few monarchs are beginning to show up that could be the first of the migration for us

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
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