April 27-Raptorthon 2019/Rockfish Gap Hawkwatch Fundraiser
From the Rockfish Gap Hawkwatch Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/rockfishgap/)
RAPTORTHON 2019!
On April 27, 2019 the Rockfish Gap Hawkwatchers team (Vic Laubach, Gabriel Mapel, Baxter Beamer and Ezra Staengl) will conduct our 7th annual Raptorthon to raise funds to support our local Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch as well as HMANA’s work for raptor conservation, migration, and hawk watching in North America. This is our only fund-raising drive of the year. We’re hoping to beat our Raptorthon record of 122 total species! We hope that you can sponsor our team. It’s easy! You simply visit our Raptorthon page below and click on ‘Donate’. We'd greatly appreciate your help!
The Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch is located in Afton, VA along the Blue Ridge Mountains. A small group of volunteers cover the watch daily from mid-August through November; counting 25,100 migrating raptors each fall on average. Each of us are volunteer counters at Rockfish Gap, with Ezra being our youngest and newest counter at age 15. This will be Ezra’s first Raptorthon.
For our Raptorthon, we’ll be out from sunrise to sunset on an ambitious venture to all corners of Augusta County, VA. We’ll visit the Allegheny Mountains including Reddish Knob, the highest point at 4,400 ft, in search of crossbills, passerines, woodpeckers and raptors such as Golden Eagle, Bald Eagle, Northern Goshawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, and Broad-winged Hawk. In the Shenandoah Valley we’ll search for shorebirds and more passerines and raptors. We aim to end the day at sunset on the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of Woodcock and owls.
We’re hoping to beat our Raptorthon record of 122 total species! We hope that you can sponsor our team. It’s easy! You simply visit our Raptorthon page below and click on ‘Donate’. We'd greatly appreciate your help!
Wish us luck!
Vic, Gabriel, Baxter, and Ezra
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