{"id":12014,"date":"2022-10-15T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2022-10-15T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:58:34","slug":"shorebirds-and-sharpies-10-15-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12014","title":{"rendered":"Shorebirds and Sharpies, 10\/15\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I woke up early this morning and birded the black dirt before heading to Mt. Peter, where I was scheduled to be the official counter. It was a gorgeous morning, and I was happy just to be out and about and not working. I didn’t have high expectations, so I was especially happy to find another nice collection of shorebirds. In one field I had loads of Killdeer, a Wilson’s Snipe, a Pectoral Sandpiper, and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. The birds were close, the light was nice; it was a lovely start to my Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ahhhh, beautiful bird. Buff-breasted Sandpiper in the black dirt, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Buff-breasted Sandpiper with a blurry Pectoral Sandpiper in the background. Black dir, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Pectoral Sandpiper, this time in focus. Black dirt 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wilson’s Snipe in the black dirt, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~BBSA in the black dirt, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~BBSA in the black dirt, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, I headed up to Mt. Peter to spend the day counting hawks on the mountain. It was an interesting flight today; I don’t know if it was due to the a substantial south wind we had today, but nearly all the migrating raptors I counted today were low birds, just above the treetops. I had a modest 30 migrants today, 20 of which where Sharp-shinned Hawks. As usual, I’ve included my Hawkcount <\/a>report below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of the 20 Sharp-shinned Hawks counted today at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I woke up early this morning and birded the black dirt before heading to Mt. Peter, where I was scheduled to be the official counter. It was a gorgeous morning, and I was happy just to be out and about and not working. I didn’t have high expectations, so I was especially happy to find … Continue reading “Shorebirds and Sharpies, 10\/15\/22”<\/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":[19,12,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-shorebirds","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-37M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","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=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}