{"id":14500,"date":"2025-11-15T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:13:32","slug":"last-day-of-hawkwatch-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14500","title":{"rendered":"Last Day of Hawkwatch 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sadly, today was the last day of the season at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I was joined by fellow counters Judy Cinquina, Tom Millard, and Ken Witkowski, as well as birding buds Linda Scrima and Silas Wareham. For the day, we tallied a total of only 36 migrating raptors, but 16 of them were Red-shouldered Hawks, and that&#8217;s a pretty good flight of Red-shoulders for Mt. Pete. Other highlights included (3) Common Loons, several Ring-billed Gulls, and a single American Herring Gull. As always, I&#8217;ve included my <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkcount.org\">Hawkcount.org<\/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\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-RSHA.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~The bird of the day &#8211; one of (16) migrating Red-shouldered Hawks at Mount Peter Hawkwatch 11\/15\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-AMRO-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~There were loads of American Robins around today at Mount Peter,  11\/15\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/111525-WTDE-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~White-tailed Deer at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/15\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.09-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.09-PM-712x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.09-PM-712x1024.png 712w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.09-PM-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.09-PM.png 756w\" 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\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"824\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.22-PM.png 824w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.22-PM-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-at-8.01.22-PM-768x813.png 768w\" 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>Sadly, today was the last day of the season at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I was joined by fellow counters Judy Cinquina, Tom Millard, and Ken Witkowski, as well as birding buds Linda Scrima and Silas Wareham. For the day, we tallied a total of only 36 migrating raptors, but 16 of them were Red-shouldered Hawks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Day of Hawkwatch 2025&#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-14500","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-3LS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500","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=14500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14507,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}