Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 07, 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 9 97
BE 0 1 13
NH 1 8 28
SS 17 310 434
CH 4 27 52
NG 0 2 3
RS 0 2 2
BW 0 17 3650
RT 0 23 44
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 2 74 92
ML 0 1 5
PG 0 13 21
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 1 4
UB 0 4 7
UF 0 1 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 5 5 17
Total: 29 498 4475
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 4 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Robert Plank
Visitors:
Peter Clark
Peter Brask
Weather:
South wind
Temp: (hi) 23.5c
Humidity: 50 > 54%
Bar.Pressure: 1013 dropping to 1010
Partly cloudy increasing to overcast and light rain by 12 EST.
Observations:
Monarch Butterfly outnumbered raptors - 65
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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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