{"id":14488,"date":"2025-11-08T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14488"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:11:53","slug":"mount-peter-hawkwatch-11-08-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14488","title":{"rendered":"Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a good day of birding today. I started off on the right foot by joining birding bud Kyle Knapp at Wickham Lake to enjoy a couple of LONG-TAILED DUCKS. They were my first sea ducks of fall migration, and Long-tailed Ducks have always been a favorite of mine – it’s hard to find a cuter duck out there; they are the puppy dogs of ducks as far as I am concerned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A couple of Long-tailed Ducks in flight at Wickham Lake, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From there, I headed up to Mount Peter Hawkwatch to count for the day. Moments after arriving, I had a nice photo op with a Pileated Woodpecker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Pileated Woodpecker at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for Hawkwatch, it was a busy enough day where I tallied over 60 migrating raptors with the help of fellow counter Rick Hansen, who joined me for a couple of hours. Raptor highlights included (3) Bald Eagles and nice flight of (9) Red-shouldered Hawks. Other highlights included numerous Common Ravens – I’d say I had at least thirty of them today. Also exciting was (2) Common Loons flying over – I always enjoy seeing them in migration. As always, I’m including my Hawk Migration Association<\/a> report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A couple of local Red-tailed Hawks mixed it up directly above the viewing platform. Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Raven in flight at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A Common Raven and a Red-tailed Hawk getting into it at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Orange County White-tailed Deer buck, 11\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had a good day of birding today. I started off on the right foot by joining birding bud Kyle Knapp at Wickham Lake to enjoy a couple of LONG-TAILED DUCKS. They were my first sea ducks of fall migration, and Long-tailed Ducks have always been a favorite of mine – it’s hard to find … Continue reading “Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/08\/25”<\/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-14488","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-3LG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488","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=14488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14499,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions\/14499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}