{"id":15214,"date":"2026-09-19T19:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:28:19","slug":"mount-peter-hawkwatch-09-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15214","title":{"rendered":"Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 09\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had an excellent day today at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. It&#8217;s primetime for Broad-winged Hawks, so I had plenty of help today. Fellow counters Jeanne Cimorelli, Tom Millard, and Ken Witkowski as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/rawnature.substack.com\">Silas Wareham<\/a> and Travis Rubio all showed up and helped scan the skies. The move of the day was when Jeanne went to the parking lot to get a better look facing east\/southeast (a blindspot from the viewing platform). From that vantage point, she tallied over 70% of the 729 Broad-winged Hawks observed today. We also had a good variety of raptor species today &#8211; with 8 species of migrating raptors, plus 3 non-migrating species. As usual, I&#8217;m including my <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkcount.org\">Hawkcount<\/a> report below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091926-BWHA-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~A kettle of Broad-winged Hawks over Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 09\/19\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.24.53-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.24.53-PM-708x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.24.53-PM-708x1024.png 708w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.24.53-PM-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.24.53-PM.png 750w\" 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-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM-787x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM-787x1024.png 787w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM-768x999.png 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-19-at-7.25.07-PM.png 804w\" 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>I had an excellent day today at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. It&#8217;s primetime for Broad-winged Hawks, so I had plenty of help today. Fellow counters Jeanne Cimorelli, Tom Millard, and Ken Witkowski as well as Silas Wareham and Travis Rubio all showed up and helped scan the skies. The move of the day was when Jeanne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 09\/19\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Xo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","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=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15219,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}