Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 11, 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 4 21 27
BE 1 8 13
NH 1 3 3
SS 5 10 16
CH 0 4 5
NG 0 1 1
RS 1 1 1
BW 321 429 482
RT 0 6 11
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 1
AK 5 8 13
ML 0 0 1
PG 0 0 0
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 0 1
UB 0 1 2
UF 0 0 0
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 1 1
Total: 338 493 579
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 19:00:00
Total observation time: 8.25 hours
Official Counter: Clair Mellinger
Observers:
Visitors:
AM: Clair Mellinger (official counter), Jim Reed, Robert Plank.
PM: Gordon Adamski, Brenda Tekin, Tad Finell
Weather:
Wind speed: 12 to 19 km/h
Wind direction N in the morning, SE late in the day
High temp: 21.5C
Humidity: 72 dropping to 54 in the afternoon
Bar. pressure 1019 dropping to 947
Cloud cover: not many at all, too much blue sky
Observations:
The BW migration has started 100 spotted between 9-10 AM, followed up by
200 from 3:30-5:45 PM. 4 OS, 1 BE, 5 AK
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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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