Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 07, 2004
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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 3 96
BE 0 2 21
NH 0 5 19
SS 3 173 471
CH 1 26 61
NG 0 1 1
RS 0 1 3
BW 0 12 4581
RT 2 5 46
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 1 3
AK 0 9 42
ML 0 1 7
PG 0 2 8
UA 0 1 6
UB 0 0 4
UF 0 0 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 6 15
Total: 6 248 5389
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Observation start time: 15:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 1 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers:
Visitors:
Henry Wilbur, also from UVa and Becky
Weather:
Another bright blue sky day. There was no coverage for most of the day.
Coverage was only from 3-4 p.m. EST thanks to boss letting us out early
due to VA-Clemson football game (faculty and staff parking lots being
confiscated for football fans).
Bright blue with no clouds to speak of to east and north. Wind: 8-12 km/h
out of the east
Temp: 17.5c
Humidity: 38%
Bar.Pressure: 1028
No haze!
Observations:
What few migrating hawks were found off to the west over Waynesboro, most
below eye level.
Flock of 16 American Crow mobbing a Red-tailed Hawk
Chimney Swift - 8
Blue Jay - only handful
Northern Flicker - 3
Monarch Butterfly - 3
Predictions:
Hopefully a few clouds and volunteer counter(s)
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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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