[va-bird] HSR: Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch (26 Aug 2003) Raptor counts (total=1)

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Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Aug 26, 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              2              2
BE                           0              2              2
NH                           0              0              0
SS                           0              5              5
CH                           0              1              1
NG                           0              0              0
RS                           0              0              0
BW                           0             36             36
RT                           0              3              3
RL                           0              0              0
GE                           0              1              1
AK                           1              3              3
ML                           0              0              0
PG                           0              0              0
UA                           0              1              1
UB                           0              0              0
UF                           0              0              0
UE                           0              0              0
UR                           0              0              0

Total:                       1             54             54
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Observation start time: 16:45:00 
Observation end   time: 19:00:00 
Total observation time: 2.25 hours

Official Counter: Brenda Tekin

Observers:        

Weather:
A most enjoyable late summer evening!

Wind: NW, 6-11 km/h
Temp:  29C>28C
Humidity: 53%
Bar.Pressure:  1013
Visibility:  35km
some haze

Observations:
Only one migrating raptors, AMKE

Chimney Swifts on the move with well over 1500 counted, all passing east to
west through and over the gap toward Waynesboro, VA.  First push of Common
Nighthawk with 59 counted.  First sighting at 5:16 (EST).   One group of
18 at 5:44; another group of 16 at 6:24.  Last two sighted at 7 p.m. with
last remaining light.  

Ruby-throated Hummingbird:  6 (1 female, 2 males, and 3 un)

Barn Swallow - 3

Monarch Butterfly - 3

Cedar Waxwing - one flock of 19
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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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