{"id":11116,"date":"2021-10-10T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2021-10-10T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:39:34","slug":"october-big-day-and-mount-peter-hawkwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11116","title":{"rendered":"October Big Day and Mount Peter Hawkwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Saturday morning, my phone let me know that it was eBird’s October Big Day. I certainly wasn’t doing a bid day, but it did make me curious to know how many birds I would get on a normal day out in early October. So, I eBirded more locations than I normally would, and I kept track of the birds that I saw en route to get a total for the day. I spent the early morning in the black dirt, where my highlight was a sizable flock of American Pipits, always a favorite of mine. From there I went to Wallkill River National Wildlife refuge. I walked Winding Waters Trail for about a mile or so, and then I spent some time at the viewing platform at the Liberty Loop. I didn’t have any exciting birds, but it was busy enough to add a good number of birds to my tally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Black-throated Green Warbler at Mount Peter Hawkwatch on Saturday 10\/09\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My next stop was Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, where I joined Tom Millard and Judy Cinquina for about an hour and a half. The flight was slow but steady, and with a good variety of migrants. My raptor highlight was a Peregrine Falcon which flew, very high, directly over the platform. For non-raptors, we had a migrating Common Loon fly close enough for a photo, a first for me at Mt. Pete. My final stop was Wickham Lake, where my best bird was a Greater Scaup. I finished the day with 57 species; I’ve included a complete list at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Mount Peter on Sunday, 10\/10\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday I was the official counter at Mount Peter. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate, with a combination of clouds, fog, and light rain making the flight practically non-existent. I had a total of 4 migrating raptors, 2 Cooper’s Hawks and 2 Northern Harriers, before I called it at 1:30 when the fog had really rolled in and the rain was starting up again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Yellow-rumped Warbler with a snack at Wickham Lake, 10\/09\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Blackpoll Warbler at Mt. Peter 10\/10\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black-throated Green Warbler at Mt. Peter 10\/09\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This got me really pumped – Common Loon flying over Mount Peter, 10\/09\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A subadult Bald Eagle flushes some Mallards at Wallkill River NWR’s Liberty Loop, 10\/09\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Love these dudes! Cedar Waxwings at Mt. Pete, 10\/10\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
  1. Canada Goose (Wallkill River NWR, Mount Peter, Black Dirt, Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  2. Mute Swan (Glenmere Lake, Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  3. American Wigeon (WR NWR)<\/li>
  4. American Black Duck (WR NWR)<\/li>
  5. Mallard (WR NWR)<\/li>
  6. Greater Scaup (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  7. Common Loon (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  8. Double-crested Cormorant (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  9. Ring-necked Pheasant (Black Dirt)<\/li>
  10. Great Blue Heron (WR NWR)<\/li>
  11. Great Egret (WR NWR)<\/li>
  12. Black Vulture (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  13. Turkey Vulture (Mt. Peter, WR NWR)<\/li>
  14. Bald Eagle (Black Dirt, WR NWR)<\/li>
  15. Sharp-shinned Hawk (WR NWR, Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  16. Northern Harrier (WR NWR, Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  17. Cooper’s Hawk (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  18. Red-shouldered Hawk (WR NWR, Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  19. Red-tailed Hawk (Black Dirt, Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  20. American Kestrel (Black Dirt, Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  21. Peregrine Falcon (Black Dirt)<\/li>
  22. Common Gallinule (WR NWR)<\/li>
  23. Killdeer (CVS Goshen)<\/li>
  24. Ring-billed Gull (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  25. Rock Pigeon (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  26. Chimney Swift (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  27. Belted Kingfisher (Beaver Pond)<\/li>
  28. Red-bellied Woodpecker (WR NWR)<\/li>
  29. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  30. Downy Woodpecker (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  31. Northern Flicker (WR NWR)<\/li>
  32. Eastern Phoebe (Black Dirt, WR NWR)<\/li>
  33. Blue Jay (Mt Peter, WR NWR, Black Dirt, Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  34. American Crow (WR NWR)<\/li>
  35. Common Raven (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  36. Black-capped Chickadee (WR NWR)<\/li>
  37. Tufted Titmouse (WR NWR)<\/li>
  38. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  39. Northern Mockingbird (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  40. White-breasted Nuthatch (WR NWR)<\/li>
  41. Eastern Bluebird (Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  42. American Robin (WR NWR, Wickham Lake)<\/li>
  43. European Starling (Wickham Lake, Black Dirt)<\/li>
  44. American Pipit (Black Dirt)<\/li>
  45. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  46. Black-throated Green Warbler (Mt. Peter)<\/li>
  47. Blackpoll Warbler (WR NWR)<\/li>
  48. Common Yellowthroat (WR NWR)<\/li>
  49. Field Sparrow (WR NWR)<\/li>
  50. Savannah Sparrow (Black Dirt, WR NWR)<\/li>
  51. Song Sparrow (Black Dirt, WR NWR)<\/li>
  52. Swamp Sparrow (WR NWR)<\/li>
  53. White-throated Sparrow (WR NWR)<\/li>
  54. Red-winged Blackbird (WR NWR)<\/li>
  55. House Finch (WR NWR)<\/li>
  56. American Goldfinch (WR NWR)<\/li>
  57. House Sparrow (Wickham Lake)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    On Saturday morning, my phone let me know that it was eBird’s October Big Day. I certainly wasn’t doing a bid day, but it did make me curious to know how many birds I would get on a normal day out in early October. So, I eBirded more locations than I normally would, and I … Continue reading “October Big Day and Mount Peter Hawkwatch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Ti","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}