Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 08, 2011
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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 79 319
Bald Eagle 1 30 116
Northern Harrier 2 14 35
Sharp-shinned Hawk 66 405 995
Cooper's Hawk 9 55 142
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 3 4
Broad-winged Hawk 5 73 28783
Red-tailed Hawk 6 32 61
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 1 1
American Kestrel 0 26 211
Merlin 0 1 11
Peregrine Falcon 0 6 24
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 2
Unknown Buteo 0 0 4
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 2 2
Total: 91 727 30710
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Observation start time: 07:30:00
Observation end time: 13:00:00
Total observation time: 5.5 hours
Official Counter: Vic Laubach
Observers: Allen Larner, Gabriel Mapel
Visitors:
Lois Gebhardt
Weather:
Another sunny cloudless day. Warm temp. 12-14.2C. Light SE breezes. 81-77%
humidity. Lots of haze, and birds quickly got lost in the haze when distant
or very high.
Raptor Observations:
The single adult BE at 10:30am today breaks the season record at Rockfish
Gap Hawk Watch! Our previous record of 115 was last year.
Two more Norther Harriers, and another Red-shouldered Hawk.
Non-raptor Observations:
3 Hot Air Balloons greeted us early rising over the low fog to the east
near Charlottesville.
Fair # of Chimney Swifts.
2 Pileated Woodpeckers.
Lots of Northern Flickers.
45 Blue Jays.2 Ruby Crowned Kinglets.
