Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 20, 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 8 78 95
BE 3 8 22
NH 1 16 18
SS 19 104 119
CH 2 24 28
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 1 1
BW 209 2721 2905
RT 0 36 71
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 4 60 63
ML 0 1 1
PG 1 2 2
UA 0 1 3
UB 0 4 11
UF 0 1 1
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 8 8
Total: 247 3065 3348
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 6 hours
Official Counter: Nancy Corwin
Observers: Dave Hunter
Visitors:
Special thanks to Nancy Corwin who took the reigns as official counter
today assisted by Walt Childs! Glad they were rewarded with at least a
few early morning birds. Second shift counter was Dave Hunter.
Thanks to all who showed up to help out today including Bob Thompson,
Marlene Condon and Rob.
Vsitors: Fred and Jan Morris from NC
Weather:
Breezy for most of the day with southerly flow 20-28km/h diminishing by
mid-afternon to SW > west.
Temp: 23c > 26.5;
Humidity: 63% dropping to 38%;
Cloud Cover: partly cloudy (16-50%)throughout the morning increasing to
overcast (76-100%) by mid-day for several hours. Clouds moved out to
partly cloudy by 4 p.m. standard time.
Raptor Observations:
Things slowed down quite a bit today with small flights throughout most of
the day. Another front moved in by 3 p.m. standard time and flights
ended.
3 Bald Eagle today: non-adult @ 12:05; adult @ 12:09; adult @ 2:04;
Season's 2nd Peregrine between 2-3 p.m.
BW hourly flight: 8-9:1; 9-10:52: 10-11:14; 11-12:23; 12-1:27; 1-2:30;
2-3:55; 3-4:5; 4-5:2
Non-raptor Observations:
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
Ruby-throated Humingbird - 2
Monarch Butterfly - 20
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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