Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 15, 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 1 19 188
BE 0 5 61
NH 1 15 47
SS 24 607 1110
CH 6 91 167
NG 0 2 2
RS 0 13 18
BW 0 244 14342
RT 12 84 129
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 1 3
AK 1 64 148
ML 0 2 5
PG 0 6 49
UA 0 3 5
UB 0 4 9
UF 0 2 4
UE 0 0 1
UR 0 3 14
Total: 45 1165 16302
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 14:30:00
Total observation time: 6.5 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Pat Alther, William Leigh
Weather:
Light WNW wind 5km/h throughout most of the day then changing to Westerly
breeze that brought in a few clouds to shield the bright blue skies.
Temp: 13c increasing to 14.5c by 10 am then dropping to 12c by 12pm.
Gradually climbed to 15.5c by 2pm.
Humidity: 28%>35%;
Bar.Pressure: 1013>1014;
Clear visibility for miles.
Raptor Observations:
Things were slow throughout the morning and then died a slow death by 2
p.m. EST. First migrating raptor of the day was a distant Northern
Harrier spotted by William Leigh at 8:41 a.m. EST.
Non-raptor Observations:
Common Raven - group of five
Monarch Butterly - 63
gull species - 1
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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