{"id":13814,"date":"2024-11-09T17:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2024-11-09T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:58:40","slug":"mount-peter-hawkwatch-11-09-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13814","title":{"rendered":"Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/09\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made a brief visit to the Black Dirt Region this morning before heading up to hawkwatch. I was lucky enough to find my target bird – Lapland Longspur. I found a sizable flock of Horned Larks; among them was at least 3 longspurs, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more like 5 or 6, as I was hearing them quite a bit. Photos didn’t happen; that’ll be something to work towards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for hawkwatch, today was my last day of the season at Mount Peter. I can hardly believe how quickly time is going by these days. I had an enjoyable 2024 season; I feel like I got more than my share of good days during a season that did not seem to produce all that many good days. My ultimate highlight, of course, was the Golden Eagle<\/a> that migrated through on 10\/19\/24, but I also enjoyed counting nearly a thousand Broad-winged Hawks<\/a> on 09\/21\/24. While the official counting season will end this coming Friday, I feel like I might want to try it for a couple hours next Saturday, since it will be prime time for Goldens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Turkey Vulture at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 11\/09\/24. TUVUs were the big mover today, with 53 migrants counted.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went out on a decent note, counting 76 migrating raptors today. It was a tough go, since there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and than makes finding the birds quite difficult. And, while the official counting season will end this coming Friday, I feel like I might want to try it for a couple hours next Saturday, since it will be prime time for Goldens. As always, I’ve included my Hawcount.org<\/a> report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red-tailed Hawks came in 2nd place with 15 migrating birds counted. This bird was not moving through and was not counted. Mt Peter Hawkwatch 11\/09\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I made a brief visit to the Black Dirt Region this morning before heading up to hawkwatch. I was lucky enough to find my target bird – Lapland Longspur. I found a sizable flock of Horned Larks; among them was at least 3 longspurs, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more like 5 … Continue reading “Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/09\/24”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13814","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-3AO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","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=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13821,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}