Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 31, 2002
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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 11 99
BE 0 2 14
NH 0 18 38
SS 1 474 598
CH 0 57 82
NG 0 3 4
RS 1 8 8
BW 0 17 3650
RT 7 201 222
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 2 2
AK 0 82 100
ML 0 2 6
PG 0 14 22
MK 0 0 1
UA 0 1 4
UB 0 7 10
UF 0 1 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 6 18
Total: 9 906 4883
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Observation start time: 11:30:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 1.5 hours
Site Coordinator: Gordy Adamski
Observers:
Visitors:
Too cold for visitors & birds
Weather:
Between 11:30 AM & 1 PM
wind speed 20 km/h out of the NW
Temperature between 11 & 12 C
Humidity 55%
Bar. Pressure 1010
mostly cloudy
Observations:
A few RT, 1 low RS
At 10 AM weather.com said it was going to be mostly sunny with a high of 51
F for Afton VA.
NOT!!!! no way was the temp that warm. The sky was 95% cloud cover. I
finally left at 1 PM when the sky became overcast with thick black clouds
coming in from the west with no chance of any more sun for a couple of
hours.
Our weather station located on Interstate 64 showed the wind out of the
SE. The wind was out of the NW by what I could feel on my face plus the
clouds were moving from the NW.
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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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