{"id":14455,"date":"2025-10-26T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14455"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:23:12","slug":"a-double-dose-of-hawkwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14455","title":{"rendered":"A Double Dose of Hawkwatching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend I counted at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch on Saturday, as usual. I also covered for another counter on Sunday, so I spent nearly 15 hours up at the mountain in two days. I tallied 161 migrating raptors over the two days, but he highlight, by far, was an immature GOLDEN EAGLE, which I located to the east of the platform during the second hour of Sunday’s watch. Unfortunately, the bird went behind the stand of trees to the on that side of the platform before I was able to even attempt a photo. Other noteworthy raptors included my first migrating Merlins of the year (three over the two days), and I enjoyed a substantial flight of Turkey Vultures during the final hour of the watch on Sunday, with over 75 migrants counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Purple Finch at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In non-raptor news, it was extremely birdy on Saturday, especially in the morning. Purple Finches were a favorite for me, and I was finally able to get a halfway decent shot of one. On Sunday, I had several skeins of BRANT fly over; my first for that species in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Brant flying over Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Robins were seemingly everywhere on Saturday morning. Mt. Pete, 10\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk flyover at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This little beast wandered out of the woods and spent a while feeding in the brush just to the right of the platform. Mount Pete, 10\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Yellow-rumped Warblers are still hanging in there. Mt. Pete, 10\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Migrating Turkey Vultures over Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This weekend I counted at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch on Saturday, as usual. I also covered for another counter on Sunday, so I spent nearly 15 hours up at the mountain in two days. I tallied 161 migrating raptors over the two days, but he highlight, by far, was an immature GOLDEN EAGLE, which I located … Continue reading “A Double Dose of Hawkwatching”<\/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-14455","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-3L9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455","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=14455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}