{"id":12037,"date":"2022-10-22T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12037"},"modified":"2022-10-22T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T23:03:49","slug":"mt-peter-hawkwatch-10-22-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12037","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/22\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I faced the blue sky of death for nearly 7 hours at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch. Fortunately there were some hawks flying early in the day; low enough to not get lost in the vast sea of blue. The afternoon was not as productive; I&#8217;ll never know if I just missed all the birds in the blue sky or if the flight slowed down. Regardless, I totaled 66 migrating raptors, just enough to keep me busy enough. Highlights included a half dozen Red-shouldered Hawks and an unexpected (to me) flight of nearly 40 Turkey Vultures. I&#8217;ve included my <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkcount.org\">HawkCount <\/a>report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-AMKE.jpg 1543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~An American Kestrel flies over the viewing platform; Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 10\/22\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/102222-rsha.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~One of six Red-shouldered Hawks counted today at Mt. Peter, 10\/22\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.44-PM.png 722w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.44-PM-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.56-PM.png 734w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-6.51.56-PM-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I faced the blue sky of death for nearly 7 hours at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch. Fortunately there were some hawks flying early in the day; low enough to not get lost in the vast sea of blue. The afternoon was not as productive; I&#8217;ll never know if I just missed all the birds in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/22\/22&#8221;<\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-389","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037","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=12037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}