[texbirds] Re: Corpus Christi kites - ranged distances
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:26:21 -0400
Ooops.... I omitted the distance to the kite - the farthest I was able to get a
reading was 437 yards! Viewed naked eye, it was really small as it passed
straight overhead.
I also got a distance to a high Black Vulture - 570 yards. Viewed naked eye,
it was definitely a dark hawk with soaring-type wings, obviously a vulture or a
dark-morph buteo, but just a small dot.
Clay Taylor
TOS Life Member
Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [texbirds] Corpus Christi kites
Hi all -
I was able to spend a few hours at the Hazel Bazemore County Park Hawk Watch
Platform this morning, anticipating the promised wind shift that would
hopefully bring us hawks.
While waiting for hawks, I was able to play with digiscoping through the new
Photo Blind attached to the Hawk Watch Platform, getting videos of bathing
Mockers, a Yellow Warbler, and 3 Orchard Orioles doing a Japanese-style group
bath. A Yellow-breasted Chat was lurking in the bushes, but would not come out
in the open. The Photo Blind and water dripper were recently completed, using
funds from the Great Texas Birding Classic and Texas Parks & Wildlife. Great
stuff!
About 10:30am there were dozens of Common Nighthawks out in front, working the
Nueces River treeline. Above them were hundreds of swallows - the insects
had to be swarming. A single scan by our newest hawkwatcher Libby (ackkk, I
forgot her last name! Shame on me!) tallied 72 Common Nighthawks!!! Oh yes,
now we have 2 Libbys!
Not much later the Mississippi Kites arrived, and they put on a show!
Anywhere from 50 to 150 were swooping above us, catching dragonflies, and
heading W-SW. I was playing with my rangefinder binocular and was able to get
a max distance of
I had to leave, so I hope that the show will continue all day.
Come on down, 'cause we all know - Hazel Rocks!
Clay Taylor
TOS Life Member
Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX
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