Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 03, 2002
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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 2 2 90
BE 0 0 12
NH 0 2 22
SS 40 50 174
CH 12 16 41
NG 0 0 1
RS 0 0 0
BW 3 3 3636
RT 3 4 25
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 9 9 27
ML 0 0 4
PG 1 2 10
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 0 3
UB 0 3 6
UF 0 0 4
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 12
Total: 70 91 4068
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Observation start time: 08:30:00
Observation end time: 15:45:00
Total observation time: 7.25 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Mellinger, Clair
Visitors:
Allan Larner
Weather:
Wind Speed: 12-19 km/h throughout most of the day
Wind Dir: SSW changing to out of NW
Temp: (hi) 29c
Humidity: 60%
Bar.Pressure: 1015
Cloud cover: zero increasing to mostly cloudy
Observations:
Clair Mellinger reported at 1:15 a "Peregrine, Coopers, Sharpshin and 2
Black Vulture in grouping directly overhead -- a clinic and a treat!"
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
Chimney Swift
Clouded Sulfur
Cabbage White
Orange Sulfur
Monarch Butterfly: 40
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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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