Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 04, 2020
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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 2 33 100
Bald Eagle 1 12 78
Northern Harrier 1 1 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 3 11
Cooper's Hawk 0 1 14
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 8
Broad-winged Hawk 13 51 306
Red-tailed Hawk 3 13 61
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 2 8 24
Merlin 0 0 2
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Accipiter 0 0 1
Unknown Buteo 0 0 0
Unknown Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown Eagle 0 0 0
Unknown Raptor 0 1 5
Mississippi Kite 0 1 2
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 1
Total: 23 124 620
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 13:30:00
Total observation time: 5.5 hours
Official Counter: Brenda Tekin
Observers: Allen Larner, Janet Paisley
Visitors:
A few folks ventured up to the mountain top today. Mark Kosiewski, Lois
McKim, Cindy and Gerry Andrews of Richmond, Crista Cabe, Janet Paisley,
Debbie Smith, Allen Larner and Nelson Lewis.
Weather:
Overall, a pleasant late summer day. Cloudless bright blue sky early
morning with slowly increasing clouds by mid-day then slacking off by top
of 1pm EST. Within 30 minutes darker threatening clouds were moving in
from the W to SW. Rain squalls to the north by 2pm and storms moving into
the immediate area by 3pm with advancing cold front. Wind was
predominantly out of the WNW most of the day, diminishing to out of the
west before approaching storms.
Raptor Observations:
Was hopeful with decent winds but it was not to be. The birds had other
plans for the day.
First bird, a high sailing Osprey at 8:37, would be the only bird for the
first 2 hours. 3rd hour only 3 birds....
Only one Bald Eagle, an adult at 10:50am. EST. Nelson Lewis was on hand
during the last 30 minutes and spotted the day's second high sailing Osprey
and one low circling Broad-wing out to the east.
Non-raptor Observations:
Pretty slim pick'ns today. There was one very large flock of over 900
Common Grackle. Only 29 Chimney Swift and one Barn Swallow. Surprisingly,
no Tree Swallow. Two adult Red-headed Woodpeckers, 11 Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds, one Common Nighthawk and one Tennessee Warbler spotted by
Allen Larner.
Predictions:
Cooler
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Report submitted by Brenda Tekin (brenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch information may be found at:
http://www.rockfishgaphawkwatch.org
More site information at hawkcount.org:
http://hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?rsite=491
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