Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Aug 17, 2012
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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 2 2
Bald Eagle 2 4 4
Northern Harrier 0 0 0
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1 1
Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 1 1
Broad-winged Hawk 4 114 114
Red-tailed Hawk 0 1 1
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 1 3 3
Merlin 0 0 0
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 2 2
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Total: 8 128 128
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Observation start time: 10:00:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 5 hours
Official Counter: Rose Thomas
Observers: Tom Pendleton
Visitors:
Long time friend, Tom Pendleton, back from New Mexico. Tom, be sure to
come back before you head south again!
Weather:
Overall, a pleasant day, WNW winds 6-11 km/h, diminishing to 1-5 shifting
to west and SW. Temp: 24.9c>30.5C; Humidity: 57% dropping to 48%;
Bar.Pressure: 999<998; very flew clouds until last hour with partly cloudy
conditions. Visibility reduced to 10k due to persistent haze.
Raptor Observations:
A slow day with several Broad-wings not counted as they milled about, back
and forth across the ridge activity feeding on the wing and never observed
migrating through. Two more adult Bald Eagles to add to our already
impressive start for so early in the season. One adult at 1:14 pm and 2nd
a few minutes later at 1:30 pm
Non-raptor Observations:
Monarch Butterfly: 4
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (brenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch, VA information may be found at:
http://www.rockfishgaphawkwatch.org
