Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 29, 2013
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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 5 161 195
Bald Eagle 6 100 120
Northern Harrier 0 23 28
Sharp-shinned Hawk 15 460 473
Cooper's Hawk 2 96 107
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 13 17
Broad-winged Hawk 4 23330 23564
Red-tailed Hawk 5 68 85
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 4 4
American Kestrel 1 57 65
Merlin 0 8 8
Peregrine Falcon 0 9 10
Unknown Accipiter 0 11 11
Unknown Buteo 0 2 3
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 10 13
Mississippi Kite 0 1 1
Total: 38 24353 24704
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Observation start time: 07:15:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 5.75 hours
Official Counter: Gabriel Mapel
Observers:
Visitors:
33 visitors including: Paul Marshall, Mary Mapel.
Sally Knight, Paul Nascar and the Fredericksburg Bird Club visited today.
Paul and his group stayed between 12-1pm after Gabriel had to leave at
12pm. Pauls' birds are included in this report.
Weather:
Light E winds. 13.8-17.0C. Partly cloudy (nice clouds!).
Raptor Observations:
Slow but steady day. Six BE: 5 adults (9:24, 10:22, 10:56, 10:56, 12:20)
and 1 immature (11:10). First bird 8:06am SS.
Non-raptor Observations:
3 Raven, 1 hummingbird, 1 Sapsucker, 400 Grackle, 1 Blue Grosebeak, 4
Flicker, 2 Blackpoll Warbler, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler, 2 Magnolia Warbler, 1
Blackburnian Warbler, 1 Tennessee Warbler, 4 BTG Warbler, 3 Rusty
Blackbird, 35 RW Blackbird, 12 Tree Swallow, 23 Swift, 43 Blue Jay, 5
Monarchs.
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Report submitted by Vic Laubach (laubach@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch information may be found at:
http://www.rockfishgaphawkwatch.org
