Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Aug 22, 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 0 0 0
BE 0 0 0
NH 0 0 0
SS 0 1 1
CH 0 1 1
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 0 0
BW 0 0 0
RT 0 0 0
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 0 1 1
ML 0 0 0
PG 0 0 0
UA 0 0 0
UB 0 0 0
UF 0 0 0
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 0
Total: 0 3 3
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Observation start time: 16:30:00
Observation end time: 17:30:00
Total observation time: 1 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers:
Weather:
Wind: S, 1-5 km/h
Temp: 29C
Humidity: 63%
Bar.Pressure: 1012
Cloud Cover: partly cloudy
Precipitation: VERY hazy, so thick you could almost cut with knife.
Storm forming on west side of ridge short distance north of site moving
eastward.
Observations:
No hawks, not even a local Red-tail.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 feeding on Rose-of-Sharon
Great-blue Heron - 1 migrating adult heading east ahead of approaching
storm.
Interesting note: for several years now I have observed Great-blue Heron
migrating over Rockfish Gap and ALL have headed in an easterly (or ESE,
SSE) direction. Would be curious if others have noted same.
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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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