Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 14, 2006
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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 4 18 187
BE 1 5 61
NH 1 14 46
SS 55 583 1086
CH 18 85 161
NG 0 2 2
RS 5 13 18
BW 1 244 14342
RT 23 72 117
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 1 3
AK 13 63 147
ML 0 2 5
PG 1 6 49
UA 0 3 5
UB 0 4 9
UF 0 2 4
UE 0 0 1
UR 2 3 14
Total: 124 1120 16257
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Observation start time: 09:00:00
Observation end time: 15:30:00
Total observation time: 6.5 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Gordy Adamski, Vic Laubach
Visitors:
Observers and visitors included:
Vic Laubach, Gordy Adamski, Rock Moeslein, Lisa Billow, Steve Thornhill
Weather:
Overall, a pleasant October bright blue sky day with crystal clear
visibility for miles (40+km/h); There was one very brief, thumb sized
cloud. Luckily the birds were flying low.
Breezy NW winds 20-35km/h during morning (trees in full sway and swoosh
sounds); Winds diminished 10-15km/h changing to out of the SSW by 2p.m.
EST;
Temp: 11.5c increasing to 14c dropping to 13c by 12 p.m. where it remained
13c the rest of the afternoon.;
Humidity: 35% dropping to 32%;
Bar.Pressure: 1010<1009;
Raptor Observations:
Pretty steady throughout most of the day to keep counters from being bored.
By 2:20pm EST things began to slow down quite a bit.
Bald Eagle - HY at 3:12pm EST (our 4 o'clock EDST eagle)
Non-raptor Observations:
Monarch Butterly - 28
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Tree Swallow - 8+
Chimney Swift - 5+
Gull species - 1
Predictions:
sunny and cool
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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