{"id":15341,"date":"2026-11-08T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:01:51","slug":"sunday-shots-11-08-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15341","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/08\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had an enjoyable day at Mount Peter yesterday. It was ideal hawk watching weather in my opinion – cold and windy with heavy cloud cover. The sky was busy with plenty of songbird, geese, and local raptor action (Red-tailed hawks, Black and Turkey Vultures, and Bald Eagles). As for migrating raptors, I had a total of 39 for the day; 30 of which were Turkey Vultures. Four Bald Eagles, a Northern Harrier, a Sharpie, a couple of Red-tails, and a Peregrine Falcon made up the rest. I kept thinking that a Golden Eagle would be right around the corner, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. Next Saturday is my last day at Mount Peter for the season; I hope I can finally pick up a Golden then. As always, I’ve included my Hawkcount.org report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning I was having some car problems, so I had to cut my birding a little short. I had a couple of highlights, though – a Black Scoter at Glenmere Lake was a pleasant surprise, as was a Bonaparte’s Gull at Wickham Lake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Cedar Waxwing having a bad hair day at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/07\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A couple of local Bald Eagles were monkeying around over the platform; it was really cool to watch and photograph. Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/07\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black Scoter at Glenmere Lake, 11\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This was pretty crazy. I watched as a Common Raven seemed to be mimicking the moves of a Red-tailed Hawk. It started with matching kiting in the heavy winds. Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 11\/07\/26.~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Followed by a matching quick descent. Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 11\/07\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Coming out of the descent; Common Raven and Red-tailed Hawk at Mt. Pete 11\/07\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And flying side by side. The Common Raven threw a few barrel rolls in just for kicks I think. Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/07\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had an enjoyable day at Mount Peter yesterday. It was ideal hawk watching weather in my opinion – cold and windy with heavy cloud cover. The sky was busy with plenty of songbird, geese, and local raptor action (Red-tailed hawks, Black and Turkey Vultures, and Bald Eagles). As for migrating raptors, I had a … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/08\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[6,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Zr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341","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=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15352,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}