Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 18, 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 0 9 102
BE 0 5 24
NH 0 7 21
SS 3 532 830
CH 2 76 111
NG 0 1 1
RS 0 2 4
BW 0 13 4582
RT 0 73 114
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 2
AK 0 18 51
ML 0 5 11
PG 0 3 9
UA 0 2 7
UB 0 1 5
UF 0 0 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 8 17
Total: 5 755 5896
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 12:00:00
Total observation time: 4 hours
Official Counter: Wm (Bill) Gallagher
Observers:
Weather:
The series of fronts producing persistent rain, fog and low clouds have
continued to plague the upper elevations the last half of October
virtually shutting us down.
Increasing cloud cover with approach of yet another front. Wind 1-5km/h
out of the SSW increasing to 6-11km/h to WSW.
Temp: 18.5c (high)
Humidity: 28% increasing to 34%
Bar.Pressure: 1016
Visibility: 19 km/h
No afternoon coverage
Observations:
After yesterday's (October 17) non-stop action on brisk NW winds, things
came to an abrupt halt today with big change in the wind. Very slow
morning.
hundreds of blackbirds
Eastern Bluebird
Gull species
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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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