Snickers Gap
20 Miles West of Leesburg, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Aug 28, 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 4 6 6
Bald Eagle 1 4 4
Northern Harrier 1 1 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 1 1
Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 2 16 16
Red-tailed Hawk 0 0 0
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 0 1 1
Merlin 1 1 1
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 0
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 0 0
Total: 9 30 30
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Observation start time: 12:00:00
Observation end time: 14:30:00
Total observation time: 2.5 hours
Official Counter: The Littles
Observers:
Weather:
Temps 78-79F
Lovely, howling, post-Irene winds out of the NW at 25.
Hurricane clouds cleared after noon, followed by fair weather cumulus
building in. Winds began to abate a bit after 1pm.
Raptor Observations:
Ospreys all crossed the ridge from the east. Surprising "grey ghost"
Harrier rose up from the river side of the ridge to well overhead with a
mere three slight flicks of the wings in that wind. Also surprising
bat-out-of-Hell Merlin zoomed south along the west side of the ridge.
Non-raptor Observations:
1 post-hurricane white-mantled Tern sp.
73 Tree Swallows
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Report submitted by BJ Little (bluejay88@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
