{"id":15082,"date":"2026-08-08T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:18:12","slug":"sussex-county-swallow-tailed-kite-08-08-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"Sussex County Swallow-tailed Kite, 08\/08\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QUICK POST: This morning I finally had some birding excitement for the first time in a good while. I ran for the SWALLOW-TAILED KITE that had been reported on Decker Road in Lafayette Township, New Jersey. I was pretty excited to hopefully see this bird, as it had been over 10 years since I&#8217;ve seen one (in Florida), and to see one in our area would be quite remarkable.  I had some really good timing; the bird was present and flying not too far out when I arrived.  After a little while, it flew in pretty close, basically directly overhead. After that, it worked its way further from the road, tangled with a couple of Peregrine Falcons and then was out of view for a while. Right before I left, it had been relocated by Silas Wareham, but the bird was quite distant at that point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"`\" class=\"wp-image-15084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080826-STKI.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Swallow-tailed Kite in Lafayette Township, Sussex County, NJ on 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK POST: This morning I finally had some birding excitement for the first time in a good while. I ran for the SWALLOW-TAILED KITE that had been reported on Decker Road in Lafayette Township, New Jersey. I was pretty excited to hopefully see this bird, as it had been over 10 years since I&#8217;ve seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sussex County Swallow-tailed Kite, 08\/08\/26&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[28,12,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-raptors","category-rarities","category-sussexcounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Vg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","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=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}