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Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 06, 2003
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Species            Day's Count    Month Total   Season Total
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BV                           0              0              0
TV                           0              0              0
OS                           3              6             12
BE                           1              3              8
NH                           1              2              2
SS                           1              3              9
CH                           0              2              3
NG                           0              1              1
RS                           0              0              0
BW                           5             19             72
RT                           1              2              7
RL                           0              0              0
GE                           0              0              1
AK                           0              0              5
ML                           0              0              1
PG                           0              0              0
MK                           0              0              1
UA                           0              0              1
UB                           0              0              1
UF                           0              0              0
UE                           0              0              0
UR                           0              1              1

Total:                      12             39            125
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Observation start time: 09:00:00 
Observation end   time: 16:00:00 
Total observation time: 6 hours

Official Counter: Jean Brodwater

Observers:        Ed Lewis

Visitors:
Mark Johnson, Madison Heights
John Spahr


Weather:
Wind - NW 6-11 km/h changing to Variable,  1-5 km/h
Temp (high) 25.5C
Humidity: 54%
Bar.Pressure: 1015
Cloud Cover: mostly cloudy



Observations:
Bald Eagle - adult at 12:45 p.m. (EST)

Jean Brodwater reports a possible Sandhill Crane.  This should be no
surprise as Sandhill Crane seem to be "regular" visitors along this
corridor during fall migraiton.  According to individuals involved with
Operation Migration, they quite possibly are Greater Sandhill Crane from
Northern Ontario or the upper peninsula  of Michigan on their way to
Florida.  Jean reports Single bird, all dark, came from SE to NW flight,
long beak, head extended, long feet (legs) extended from behind. Wings
large, slow, heading into NNW wind, 12 noon. Not a (Great) Blue Heron, not
a Cormorant.

Monarch Butterfly - 7
Chimney Swift
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA information may be found at:
http://home.ntelos.net/~btkin/rockfish_gap_hawk_watch


***Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA - Established 1976***
The Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch is held on the grounds of the Inn at Afton, located 
on the southern side of Rockfish Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just above 
where I-64 (exit 99) intersects with the southern end of the Skyline Drive and 
the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just east of Waynesboro, VA and 
approximately 22 miles west of Charlottesville, VA.  

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