{"id":11943,"date":"2022-09-11T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:58:52","slug":"sunday-shots-09-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 09\/11\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first bird of the weekend was a new yard bird for me – Common Raven. It was just after sunrise on Saturday morning and the bird landed on one of the evergreens in the backyard and was calling repeatedly. I grabbed my camera and the sun was just barely over the trees and casting the bird in warm light as I snapped some shots. The bird was species number 55 in my yard for 2022; I thought that was a nice way to start the weekend’s birding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Common Raven in my yard, 09\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was the official counter at Mount Peter Hawkwatch on Saturday. I got out early and birded the black dirt for a little while before heading up to the mountain. I was rewarded with a couple of BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS. There were also hundreds (thousands?) of Tree Swallows around. When I saw them, in a few separate fields, they were on the ground and periodically picking up and taking flight. It was the most Tree Swallows I’ve ever seen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A favorite of mine and so many other birders, Buff-breasted Sandpiper in the Black Dirt on Sunday 09\/11\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Tree Swallows in the black dirt on 9\/10\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tree Swallows would prove to be the theme of the day; when I got to Mount Peter there were just loads of them migrating through. Again, I witness hundreds and hundreds of Tree Swallows as I searched the skies for migrating raptors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The raptor flight was weak, and I only had 14 migrating birds for the day. I did count another Osprey (always cool to see in migration), and I counted my first migrating Bald Eagle of the year. For more details, see my report for the day at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Kestrel in the black dirt, 09\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I birded the Black Dirt Region again – I was able to locate three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, but no other shorebirds (other than the expected loads of Killdeer). I’m coming across loads of American Kestrels in the black dirt recently; I saw ten just this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~BBSA striking a pose in the black dirt, 09\/11\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And one final shot of a BBSA in the black dirt, 09\/11\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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