Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 13, 2008
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 0
Osprey 1 21 141
Bald Eagle 0 5 36
Northern Harrier 0 8 27
Sharp-shinned Hawk 26 430 754
Cooper's Hawk 5 57 112
Northern Goshawk 0 0 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 3 4
Broad-winged Hawk 0 10 14439
Red-tailed Hawk 1 24 47
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 1 2
American Kestrel 0 28 97
Merlin 0 6 9
Peregrine Falcon 0 7 17
Unknown Accipiter 0 2 2
Unknown Buteo 0 0 2
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 5 11
Mississippi Kite 0 0 1
Total: 33 607 15702
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 13:30:00
Total observation time: 5.5 hours
Official Counter: Rose Thomas
Observers:
Visitors:
Lisa Billow, Neena Barley;
Weather:
What a difference a day can make. Clouds began moving in early Sunday
eveninbg as did the wing. A bit breezy for most of the day with westerly
wind, a 4 diminisming to 3 and then 2 on the Beaufort wind scale.
Temp: 14.5c > 22.0c;
Humidity: 67% dropping to 40%;
Bar.Pressure: holding steady at 1024;
Partly cloudly with diminishing by mid-day. Late afternoon there was a
thin layer of clouds that cleared out by sunset.
The thick haze from yesterday was pushed out with the westerly breeze
producing close to crystal clear sky over the western valley.
Raptor Observations:
Rose Thomas took advantage of the Federal holiday and hung out until 1:30
p.m. EST. She was joined by William Leigh. Unfortunately, not much flying
even with good winds.
Non-raptor Observations:
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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
