Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 18, 2002
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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BV 0 6 6
TV 0 8 11
OS 10 48 49
BE 0 4 4
NH 1 6 6
SS 2 36 46
CH 1 8 16
NG 0 1 1
RS 0 0 0
BW 331 964 967
RT 0 11 15
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 1 6 10
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 4 6
MK 0 1 1
UA 0 0 1
UB 0 1 1
UF 0 2 3
UE 0 0 0
UR 2 8 8
Total: 348 1115 1152
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 9 hours
Site Coordinator: Gordy Adamski
Observers: Gordy Adamski, Nancy Corwin
Visitors:
Other observers for the day were Ruth Ann Eddins from Northern VA, Nancy
Corwin, Richard Morton & Peter Barsk.
Weather:
Wind speed: 0-1 km/h per hour most of the day
Wind direction: SE all day
Hight Temp: 26.5 C 9-10 AM
Humidity: 56% @ 9 AM to 73% @ 4 PM
Bar. Pressure: 1015 to 1016 all day
Cloud cover 1 in the AM, 3 in the PM
Observations:
Considering we could not see the towers on Bear Den Mt. all day or into the
Waynesboro village all day due to the fog in the distance, I am pleased
with the 348 raptors we had. We had a very LOW OS at 1:30 PM. He came
around the hotel from the West & flew below our eye site. We thought it
was a TV at 1st as they like to fly low over the skating rink. Then we
noticed a flash of white. We all put up the binocluars & were surprised to
see that it was an OS & that we were looking down on him. At 1:45 PM I was
packing up my stuff & going to call it a day as the clouds rolled in & it
looked like rain. Dick Morton noticed a RT so we took a look. Then Nancy
Davidson said to look at the birds behind the RT. Off in the distance over
the Piedmont Valley & high in the sky we counted 186 BW's flying through.
Good catch Nancy!, so I unpacked my stuff & stayed the rest of the day.
The other highlight occured at 2:40 PM when we had 3 OS flying behind each
other, followed by 2 more OS 7 minutes later.
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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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