Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 13, 2002
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Species Day's Count Month Total YTD Total
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BV 0 6 6
TV 0 8 11
OS 12 24 25
BE 2 3 3
NH 0 4 4
SS 1 20 30
CH 0 3 11
NG 0 1 1
RS 0 0 0
BW 79 182 185
RT 0 11 15
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 0
AK 0 5 9
ML 0 1 1
PG 0 0 2
MK 0 1 1
UA 0 0 1
UB 0 1 1
UF 0 2 3
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 3 3
Total: 94 275 312
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Observation start time: 13:00:00
Observation end time: 17:00:00
Total observation time: 4 hours
Site Coordinator: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Brenda Tekin, Mary Smith, Nancy Corwin, Richard Schiemann
Visitors:
Nancy Morton
Additional observers helping to spot:
Donna Lewis
Dick Morton
Weather:
Dimishing SW>SE winds from 12-19 km/h to 6/11 km/h.
Cloud Cover: 0
Temp:(hi) 25.5 (2-3 p.m. EST)
Humidity: 42 increasing to 46
Beautiful afternoon with increasing cloud cover. Very difficult to find
high sailing BWs in bright blue upper level hazy skies.
Observations:
Try as we might, we just couldn't squeeze in a few more birds to make it
our first triple day. Like they say, tomorrow is another day! We had no
morning coverage. What a pity because they were certainly flying this
afternoon. Coverage began from 1 p.m. ending at 5 p.m. (EST) with bulk of
birds between 3-4. We had our first "kettle" of BW's with over 20. It
was like old homecoming week with Dick and Nancy Morton from NJ down for a
week, Mary Smith taking time off from her busy teaching schedule, Donna
Lewis, Richard Schiemann who took the reigns as countkeeper and Nancy
Corwin, spotter extrordinnaire.
The two eagles were adults, including our 4 o'clock eagle 5 minutes early!
Monarch butterfly: 7
Predictions:
Mild temps, increasing cloud cover and what we hope to be a good flight for
our first triple-digit day.
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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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