Hazel Bazemore Park

Hazel Bazemore County Park is located in Calallen, Texas. This 77.6-acre park is located along the banks of the Nueces River and offers hawk watchers and bird enthusiasts in Corpus Christi plenty of chances to see nature in action. The park features a wetland pond and woodlands, which offer visitors a chance to see a variety of water-loving birds. The park provides a range of habitat, including fields, marshy ponds, and scrub woodland. There’s also a marked nature trail. But the park’s true attraction —in fact, its national fame — comes from its fall raptor migration. Watchers set up a lookout post on the low bluff overlooking the Nueces and count passing vultures, Osprey, kites, eagles, harriers, hawks, and falcons from mid-August through mid-November. In 1998 nearly a million birds were seen, and in 2002 well over a half-million. The great majority of them (more than 90 percent) are Broad-winged Hawks, the small Buteo that nests in woodlands over much of eastern North America. Hawk Watch held at Hazel Bazemore County Park west of Corpus Christi, Texas in Nueces County GPS Lat. 27°51'56.8" and Long. 97°38'33.8" Fall watch hours 10 am August 15 - November 15. Hazel Bazemore Park is one of the parks operated by the Nueces County Parks and Recreation Department. The 77.6-acre park is located on the Nueces River in Calallen, just off of Northwest Boulevard and County Road 6.