{"id":15318,"date":"2026-11-01T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:59:20","slug":"sunday-shots-11-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15318","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/01\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a typical birding weekend for me – I spent Saturday up on Mount Peter counting hawks and then I hit a lot of the usual spots in southern Orange County on Sunday. I had a decent flight at Mount Peter on Saturday, with 49 migrating raptors counted. I was, of course, hoping for a Golden Eagle, but it wasn’t in the cards. You can see my Hawkcount.org report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then today, I enjoyed a pleasant, if unexciting, morning of birding. I didn’t have any exciting sitings, but the weather was fantastic and it was birdy enough to keep things interesting. My favorite moment was finding a Hermit Thrush in a bush along the road in the black dirt. Maybe next weekend there will be a little excitement – hopefully up on Mount Peter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Hermit Thrush in the black dirt, 11\/02\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cedar Waxwing at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/31\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And and flock of Cedar Waxwings flying over the platform at Mount Pete, 10\/31\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One lonely Canada Goose in the fog at Wickham Lake, 11\/01\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Local Red-tailed Hawk at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/31\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Bald Eagle over Mount Pete, 10\/31\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was a typical birding weekend for me – I spent Saturday up on Mount Peter counting hawks and then I hit a lot of the usual spots in southern Orange County on Sunday. I had a decent flight at Mount Peter on Saturday, with 49 migrating raptors counted. I was, of course, hoping for … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/01\/26”<\/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":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Z4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318","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=15318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15329,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}