Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Aug 29, 2003
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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 2 4 4
BE 2 4 4
NH 0 0 0
SS 0 5 5
CH 0 1 1
NG 0 0 0
RS 0 0 0
BW 2 38 38
RT 0 3 3
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 1 1
AK 0 3 3
ML 0 0 0
PG 0 0 0
MK 1 1 1
UA 0 1 1
UB 0 0 0
UF 0 0 0
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 0
Total: 7 61 61
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Observation start time: 13:00:00
Observation end time: 17:15:00
Total observation time: 3.83 hours
Official Counter: Gordy Adamski
Observers: Brenda Tekin
Weather:
Another split coverage - 1-3:15 p.m. EST and 5-7 p.m.
Very light NW breeze;
Temp: 30.5C
Humidity: 58% > 62%
Bar.Pressure: 1015
Cloud Cover: party cloudy increasing to overcast
Visibility: 10km due to very thick haze
By 7 p.m. another developing storm along the western side of ridge and
unstable air mass from southern end met overhead, forming one doozy of a
storm that streamrolled over Albemarle County from Charlottesville to
southern end of the county. The county fair suffered heavy damage with
very high winds which toppled and destroyed an $80,000 tent, injuring
several individuals huddled inside out of the rain and shutting down the
fair on Friday. The sky was lit up all around with a second night of
intense lightening and thunder that rattled the very foundation of our
home. Some scary stuff!
Observations:
Two adult Bald Eagles within 14 minutes of each other - 2:14 and 2:28 p.m.
EST
Best bird was an adult Mississippi Kite observed by Gordy Adamski. It was
on the western side of the ridge heading SW a 2:08 EST. This could quite
possibly be same adult MIKI observed one week ago at exit 94 on I-81
approximately 4 miles west of site.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: 3 (1 adult male, 1 imm. male, 1un)
Common Nighthawk - 9
European Starling - one massive flight of 1,000 heading west through gap
over Waynesboro. The sky was literally a huge black cloud of starlings!
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA information may be found at:
http://home.ntelos.net/~btkin/rockfish_gap_hawk_watch
***Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA - Established 1976***
The Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch is held on the grounds of the Inn at Afton, located
on the southern side of Rockfish Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just above
where I-64 (exit 99) intersects with the southern end of the Skyline Drive and
the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just east of Waynesboro, VA and
approximately 22 miles west of Charlottesville, VA.
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