Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 22, 2005
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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 8 89 106
BE 2 11 25
NH 1 18 20
SS 15 133 148
CH 0 25 29
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 1 1
BW 114 2900 3084
RT 4 43 78
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 1 62 65
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 2 2
UA 0 1 3
UB 0 4 11
UF 0 1 1
UE 0 1 1
UR 1 9 9
Total: 146 3301 3584
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Observation start time: 07:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 9 hours
Official Counter: Tom Pendleton
Observers:
Visitors:
Official counters today included former coordinator John Irvine, Jr. and
Tom Pendleton, Nancy Corwin and Dave Hunter and Donna Lewis.
Visitors included Judy DiSoca, Len DiIoir, K.Guinn, Mike Guinn (I
apologize for any mispellings; had difficulty in reading the sheet.)
Weather:
Barely a whisper of a breeze out of the East and if any birds were in the
area they probably were drifting high overhead or further to the east over
the piedmont. By 10 a.m. breeze picked up to 1-5 km/h.
Temp: 21.5c >28c then dropping to 26.5c;
hmidity
humidity: 69% < 55% then back up to 60%
Bar.Pressure: steady throughout the day at 1018
Cloud Cover: Clear for most of the morning incresing to mostly cloudy by
11 am dropping to partly cloudy (16-50%) by 2 p.m.
Raptor Observations:
Seems we're seeing smaller flights spread out instead of several
"concentrated" flight days for several species including BW and Osprey.
And bring on the eagles! We've finally seeing non-adults starting to move
through with two today (11 and 11:50)
Non-raptor Observations:
Monarch Butterfly - 24
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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