Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 21, 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 3 81 98
BE 1 9 23
NH 1 17 19
SS 14 118 133
CH 1 25 29
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 1 1
BW 65 2786 2970
RT 3 39 74
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 1 61 64
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 2 2
UA 0 1 3
UB 0 4 11
UF 0 1 1
UE 1 1 1
UR 0 8 8
Total: 90 3155 3438
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 9 hours
Official Counter: Jennifer Gaden
Observers:
Visitors:
Thanks to everyone who showed up to help today. Just wish you had been
rewarded with a few more birds.
Counters included: Jennifer Gaden, Bill Funk and Dave Hunter; Observers
included Nancy Corwin, Lois Gebhardt, Bonnie Sexton, Robert Plank, Lynn
Juliana, Mike Griffin and D. Lee
Weather:
Breezy 20-28km/h NW wind dimnishing to 1-5km/h by 11 a.m. Winds shifted to
primarily out of the SE ranging between 6-15 km/h for the afternoon.
Temp: 222c increasing to 31.5 by 12 pm then droping to 23c by 4 pm.
Humidity: 64% < 58%
Bar.Pressure: 1018>1020
Cloud Clover: partly cloudy (16-50%) throughout most of the day.
Raptor Observations:
Things really slowed down today. With good counts from neighboring sites,
we can only speculate they were sailing high or off to the east over the
piedmont on the SE winds.
BW hourly flight: 9-10:20; 10-11:7; 1-2:12; 2-3:13; 3-4:13
Non-raptor Observations:
Monarch Butterfly: 26
Northern Flicker
Poleated Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Great Blue Heron
Chimney Swift
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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