10 WHITE PELICANS

Today was a tough day for Jim Rowell and Harold Birch, that is until the 10 White Pelicans flew over!  Yet the day was so difficult, they called it a day at 3.  Don't blame them.  It got quite windy I heard, as a front is coming into the valley.

Corpus Christi had 72338 hawks today, of which 71571were BW's.  Definite evidence that BW's are certainly on their way to Gone! 
Making this short today:

Here's the count as it appears on Hawkcount.org:

Thursday
Sept. 28, 2917
OS 1
NH 1
CH 1
Total Raptors  3



We are nearing the end of the month, and will soon do a month's totals.  I will catch up the grand totals at that time and we'll see where we stand at the end of the first month of Fall Hawk-watch season 2017. Later today, I'll get Jimmy to pull up the individual bird totals and make my side bar counts accurate.

Last 7 days with Fall and Month to date totals

2351 total Hawks seen so far.  2268 were BW's.  As you can see, the 23rd was one of the big push days when hawks were visible.  That is consistent with other years; we can usually expect at least one good day this week.  It's just a roll of he dice though. Because the Barometer was perfect for seeing hawks this week.  Getting to 30.1 or less most days.

As Bill often reminds us, even though the BW push will soon be done, migration is not done. 

SO
Keep Looking UP!!!