Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 17, 2002
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Species Day's Count Month Total YTD Total
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BV 0 6 6
TV 0 8 11
OS 5 38 39
BE 0 4 4
NH 1 5 5
SS 10 34 44
CH 3 7 15
NG 0 1 1
RS 0 0 0
BW 273 633 636
RT 0 11 15
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 0 5 9
ML 0 1 1
PG 3 4 6
MK 0 1 1
UA 0 0 1
UB 0 1 1
UF 0 2 3
UE 0 0 0
UR 3 6 6
Total: 298 767 804
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 10 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Brenda Tekin, Gordy Adamski, Mary Smith, Nancy Corwin
Visitors:
Alan Richardson
Nancy Davidson
Dick and Nancy Morton
Donna Lewis
Weather:
GREAT!
light wind out of NNW
Hi Temp: 25.5 a 4-5 p.m. EST!
Humidity: 45 - 60%
Bar.Pressure: 1016
Partly cloudy throughout most of day.
Observations:
Slow start in the morning. Bulk of BWs came through between 3-5:30 p.m.
(EST: 3-4:69; 4-5:108; 5-5:30-36.
Last bird was Peregrine low over parking lot after day's totals had been
tallied. Hey, there's always room for one more, especially for a
Peregrine! Birds were way up there and probably missed quite a few that
were above the clouds. Even between 4-5 p.m. birds were easily 4 up off
top of ridge, tiny gray specs sailing across.
Kentucky Warbler - 1
Monarch Butterfly - 71
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: 5
Cedar Waxwing
Predictions:
mostly cloudy with slight chance of rain
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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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