Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 04, 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 10 11 137
BE 1 3 35
NH 2 2 19
SS 51 55 255
CH 1 4 52
NG 0 0 3
RS 0 1 5
BW 52 53 8734
RT 0 0 35
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 3
AK 2 3 81
ML 2 2 15
PG 2 2 23
MK 0 0 1
UA 1 1 9
UB 0 0 7
UF 0 0 4
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 2 8
Total: 124 139 9426
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 7 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Gordy Adamski, Robert Plank
Visitors:
Great help from the following folks:
Duane Brown from Powhattan, who visited Hawk Ridge last weekend and
observed the 100,000+ in one day!
Mark Johnson and Robert Ferrell from Lynchburg, Carl Christensen from
Washington, DC, Keith Lovekamp from Stuarts Draft;
Linda Ford,Harry ad Helen Minich from Charlottesville
Weather:
Winds out of south changing to variable by mid-day then WNW with strong
gusts up to 21mph by late afternoon, bringing in dark clouds.
Cloud cover was high cirrus clouds increasing to dark overcast with threat
of rain by afternoon.
Humidity: 49%
Observations:
Birds remained low, many at or below eye level. Osprey coming from NE
skirting treetops on north ridge, then coming across below eyelevel.
Strong upper winds seemed to be keeping them down lower.
Four Osprey came through between 3-3:30 p.m. EST.
Single BE, 4 year at 12:15 EST;
Two Peregrine, both immatures, one at 12:58 p.m. and second at 2:59 p.m.
EST.
Robert Plank reported a single Evening Grosbeak.
Surprising numbers of Chimney Swift throughout the day.
Blue Jay - very few
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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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