Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 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 0 1 100
BE 0 0 14
NH 0 4 42
SS 1 94 692
CH 1 37 119
NG 1 2 6
RS 0 16 24
BW 0 0 3650
RT 16 545 767
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 1 3
AK 0 1 101
ML 0 0 6
PG 0 0 22
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 0 4
UB 0 0 10
UF 0 0 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 18
Total: 19 701 5584
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Observation start time: 09:15:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 3.75 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Brenda Tekin, Gordy Adamski, Pat Alther
Weather:
Upper level of bright blue with white clouds blocked throughout most of the
morning by low clouds producing light rain between 9-10. Steady southerly
flow of air kept bringing in bands of low clouds shutting us down by 1
p.m. Bear Den Mountain remained completely socked in the entire morning.
Wind Speed: 6-11 km/h increasing to 19-25 km/h
Temperature: (high) 17c
Humidity: 61 increasing to 75%
Bar.Pressure: 1012 dropping to 1011
Observations:
Few RTs flying through, most at at below eye level, staying below clouds.
Dark-eyed Junco - several small flocks
Cedar Waxwing - quite a few, including two very impressive large flocks
100+
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 heading north across gap
Rusty Blackbird - flock of 6 low in front on east side
American Robin - small numbers moving through
Fish Crow - many including 2 large flocks
Rainbow over Waynesboro at 10:20 a.m.
Predictions:
Tomorrow is Monday so that means more Rain!
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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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