Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA
Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 07, 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 1 104
BE 1 2 26
NH 1 2 28
SS 5 25 975
CH 1 4 145
NG 0 0 2
RS 1 5 15
BW 0 0 4582
RT 25 179 946
RL 0 0 0
GE 0 0 2
AK 3 4 63
ML 0 0 13
PG 1 1 11
UA 0 0 8
UB 0 0 5
UF 0 0 5
UE 0 0 0
UR 0 0 17
Total: 38 223 6947
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Observation start time: 10:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 6 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers:
Visitors:
Lois Gebhardt
Bill Funk
Duane Brown
Weather:
What a pleasant warm,lazy summer day with light southerly breezes. This
couldn't be November!
Temp: 25c (high)
Humidity: 32% dropping to 26%
Bar.Pressure: 1010<1009
Cloud Cover: not a single wisp. Brutal bright blue with haze and heat
shimmer early in the day.
Visibility still over 30km with light haze
Observations:
Quite a few Red-tails milling around not in any hurry to move on.
Late in the day I had remarked how long it had been since I had last seen
an eagle. It was not until after I arrived home in the evening and while
reviewing photos taken earlier in the day did I discover the Outback
airship I had photographed at 11:44 a.m. was escorted by an adult Bald
Eagle heading South.
Red-breasted Nuthatch landed in Rose-of-Sharon only few short feet away.
Hidden in cluster of branches, all I could hear was more like the "yak,
yak" of White-breasted Nuthatch, not the high-pitched squeeky toy of a
Red-breasted. Managed to photograph to confirm it was a Red-breasted.
Golden-crowned Kinglet- small group of 4-5 flew in to feed on insects on
Quince bushes.
Cormorant species
Things were so quiet that a groundhog came up on the railing platform just
a few short feet away and was photographed.
Predictions:
partly cloudy with advance of cold front
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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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