Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 09, 2004
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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 3 7 17
BE 2 2 9
NH 0 0 4
SS 1 12 29
CH 0 0 8
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 1 1
BW 2 127 284
RT 0 3 23
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 0 6 12
ML 0 0 1
PG 0 0 0
UA 0 0 1
UB 0 0 2
UF 0 1 3
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 4
Total: 8 159 398
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 14:00:00
Total observation time: 6 hours
Official Counter: Wm (Bill) Gallagher
Observers: Robert Plank
Weather:
After 3 days of rain, skies began clearing late Wednesday.
Wind: WNW > NNW, 12km/h increasing to 29-38km/h with approaching cold
front.
Temp: 26.5 (high)
Humidity: 72% dropping to 48%
Bar Pressure: 1007 increasing to 1010
Cloud Cover: Mostly sunny increasing to mostly cloudy
Clear skies at last with no haze.
Observations:
Slow day. Hopefully next couple of days we should start seeing BWs pushing
through.
Bald Eagle: 1 @ 8:17 EST - 1st year; 1 at 11:30 EST-5+(adult)
Chimney Swift
Hunningbird: 7
Redheaded Woodpecker
Predictions:
More sunshine!
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA information may be found at:
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