Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 23, 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 9 98 115
BE 4 15 29
NH 1 19 21
SS 14 147 162
CH 4 29 33
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 1 1
BW 717 3617 3801
RT 1 44 79
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 6 68 71
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 2 2
UA 0 1 3
UB 0 4 11
UF 0 1 1
UE 0 1 1
UR 2 11 11
Total: 758 4059 4342
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Observation start time: 07:15:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 9.75 hours
Official Counter: John Irvine, Jr.
Observers:
Visitors:
I want to thank each and everyone of you for answering the call to help out
this week. You're the best!
Official counters included: John Irvine and Donna Lewis, ably assisted by
Tom Pendleton, Nancy Corwin, Ed Lewis, Rose Thomas, and Bill Gallagher.
Welcome back, Bill! I have you down for next Monday!
Visitors included Elizabeth Hunter and Doug Hibshman, Pat Higgins and
members of bird-watching group. (I apologize for any mispellings.)
Weather:
Blustery 50-61 km/h out of the WNW throughout the morning changing to W
then SW back to W and NW by 1 pm dropping to 29-38km/h and then down to
12-19km/h by 4 p.m.
Temp: 24c>29.5c
Humidity: 64% dropping to 46%
Bar.Pressure: 1015>1016;
Cloud Cover: partly cloudy down to clear through the morning hours. Back
to partly and mostly cloudy between 12-5 p.m.
Raptor Observations:
Great morning flight and things dropped off by afternoon. However, no
complaints with 4 BE and 9 OS.
BW hourly flight: 8-9:46; 9-10:429; 10-11:26; 11-12:1; 12-1:188; 1-2:0;
2-3:20; 3-4:5
BE: 10:46 adult; 1:05:imm; 1:20:adult; 3:50:imm;
Northern Harrrier: adult female at 7:35 am
Non-raptor Observations:
Chimney Swift
American Crow with white secondaries. This individual has been observed
throughout the month of September with small flock.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-spotted Purple - 1
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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