Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 03, 2002
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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 1 100
BE 0 0 14
NH 0 2 40
SS 16 65 663
CH 5 17 99
NG 0 1 5
RS 3 12 20
BW 0 0 3650
RT 96 334 556
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 2
AK 0 0 100
ML 0 0 6
PG 0 0 22
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 0 4
UB 0 0 10
UF 0 0 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 18
Total: 120 432 5315
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 15:45:00
Total observation time: 6.75 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Brenda Tekin
Visitors:
Special thanks to Mike Reyman and Jim Hylton for helping out.
And, a thank you to the unidentified young man sitting in the restaurant
who tapped on the window to bring attention to an adult Red-shouldered
that was slowly gliding over the old skating rink at eye level at 3:40
p.m. as I was totalling the tally sheet.
Weather:
Wind 1-5 km/h from SW during first hour then increased to 6-11 km/h out of
NW between 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. with bulk of birds spotted during this
time. Wind then dimished to out of SW to less than 5 km/h.
Temp: (high) 10.5c (steadily increased through 3:30 p.m.)
Humidity: 37 to 39% down to 36%
Barametric Pres.: 1013 increasing to 1015
Cloud cover: partly cloudy the first hour then zero clouds for remainder
of day.
Observations:
CORRECTION TO ORIGINAL SUBMISSION: The 96 Rough-legged originally reported
were in fact Red-tailed. (Need to adjust bifocals.)
Red-tails were flying much higher, some tiny specs high up in bright blue
sky.
Adult Northern Goshawk came through at 9:38 a.m.; at 9:51 an adult NOGO
zipped north across interstate then slowly worked through the trees below
top of ridge before it disappeared heading north at 9:55 a.m. I had to
subtract it from the tally sheet.
Small bands of Am.Robin (several hundred)
Cedar Waxwing - several impressive flocks back and forth
Eastern Bluebird - several small flocks
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Monarch Butterfly - 4
Predictions:
Rain, AGAIN.
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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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