Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 04, 2005
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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 0 8 25
BE 1 2 16
NH 1 1 3
SS 4 11 26
CH 0 0 4
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 0 0
BW 19 63 247
RT 11 13 48
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 3 8 11
ML 0 0 0
PG 0 0 0
UA 0 0 2
UB 0 0 7
UF 0 0 0
UE 0 0 0
UR 1 1 1
Total: 40 107 390
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Observation start time: 08:30:00
Observation end time: 14:15:00
Total observation time: 5.75 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Gordy Adamski
Visitors:
Bonnie Sexton
Angela Noebel
Weather:
NW wind clocking 20-28km/h with strongs gusts throughout the day. Definite
chill in the air with high of 21.5c;
Humidity: 56% dropping to 42%;
Cloud cover: no clouds increasing to partly cloudy to mostly cloudy.
Clear visibility for miles and no haze.
Raptor Observations:
Raptors were high sailing specs, hard to spot, and some lost in bright blue
patches inbetween inreasing cloud cover.
Non-raptor Observations:
Monarch Butterfly - 28;
Chimney Swift
Tree Swallow
Hummingbird - 8
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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
Site Description:
***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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