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Table X m -  Page 81 Airport in Calhoun, Georgia;  October 7, 1987;     (Magnetic Declination = 2°W:  Subtract 2° for True Bearing, True Heading and True Wind Direction)
Num.	Species	Time	Flight Behavior						Weather					Field Notes
			I	II	III	IV	Va	Vb	Part 1			Part 2	Part 3
			Est. Alt.	Type of Flt.	Horiz. Flt.	Vert. Flt.	Mag. Bear.	Mag. Head.	Wind Dir.	Wind  Vel.	Amb. Temp	Thrm. Act.	Cloud  Types
-	-	4:32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	yes	-	WW:  Radar showed that there were multiple targets in a thermal that was 1.6 km in diameter and 1.6 km high.
-	-	4:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	yes	-	Vultures were soaring.
-	-	4:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	WW:  A blue sky thermal (no cumulus cloud) was approaching.
382	D. plexippus	4:48	30 m	soar	circle	level	103°	-	340°	2.2 m/s	-	yes	-	Butterfly drifted downwind while soaring in circles at 30 m.  A swift approached the butterfly then turned away.
383	D. plexippus	4:53	7 m	soar, glide, soar	circle, straight, circle	descend, climb	140°	right	318°	1.8 m/s	-	yes	-	John Westbrook's observation:  Butterfly was circling in a thermal when it left and glided down to 7 m, encountered a second thermal, began to circle and soar again and climbed to 12 m.  Vultures were soaring
384	D. plexippus	5:04	15 m	soar	circle, straight, circle	level	157°	210°	323°	2.2 m/s	-	yes	-	Alton Spark's observation:  Butterfly soared in circles and soared straight, but stayed at the same altitude.  John Westbrook reported that air sonde measured an ambient temperature of 2 °C at an altitude of 2 km .