{"id":3277,"date":"2014-09-13T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2014-09-13T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T20:58:30","slug":"mt-peter-hawk-watch-91314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter Hawk Watch 9\/13\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Five<\/a>
It’s not much of a photo, but here are five of the 336 migrating Broad-winged Hawks at Mt. Peter Hawk Watch, 9\/13\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did my first shift of the year as counter at Mt. Peter Hawk Watch last Saturday. I didn’t do a blog post because it was uneventful – I counted only 5 migrating hawks in 6 hours of observation. Today was quite a different story. Despite the cloudy and drizzly weather, I surpassed last week’s total in the first 10 minutes of the watch. The highlight was the third hour of the watch, when I had 301 Broad-winged Hawks pass through. To make it even better, the birds were flying relatively low and could be seen easily with the naked eye. I had two large kettles – one with 126 BWHAs and the other with 105. I was so involved with trying to get a good count that I neglected to take any photos. I had one more sizable kettle of 49 birds where\u00a0I remembered to get the above photo. My total for the day was 337 migrating raptors. All were Broad-winged Hawks with the exception of a single Osprey. Here’s my report, as submitted to HMANA at hawkcount.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mount Peter
\nWarwick, New York, USA
\nDaily Raptor Counts: Sep 13, 2014
\n——————————————————————-<\/p>\n

Species \/ Day’s Count \/ Month Total \/ Season Total
\n____________________________________________
\nBlack Vulture 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nTurkey Vulture 0 \/ 1 \/ 1
\nOsprey 1 \/ 18 \/ 18
\nBald Eagle 0 \/ 10 \/ 10
\nNorthern Harrier 0\u00a0\/\u00a02 \/ 2
\nSharp-shinned Hawk 0 \/ 31 \/ 31
\nCooper’s Hawk 0 \/ 6 \/ 6
\nNorthern Goshawk 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nRed-shouldered Hawk 0 \/ 2 \/ 2
\nBroad-winged Hawk 336 \/ 444 \/ 444
\nRed-tailed Hawk 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nRough-legged Hawk 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nGolden Eagle 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nAmerican Kestrel 0 \/ 13 \/ 13
\nMerlin 0 \/ 2 \/ 2
\nPeregrine Falcon 0 \/ 3 \/ 3
\nUnknown Accipiter 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nUnknown Buteo 0 \/ 4 \/ 4
\nUnknown Eagle 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nUnknown Falcon 0 \/ 0 \/ 0
\nUnknown Raptor 0 \/ 5 \/ 5<\/p>\n

Total: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0337 \/ 541 \/ 541
\n____________________________________________<\/p>\n

Observation start time: 08:00:00
\nObservation end time: 13:30:00
\nTotal observation time: 5.5 hours<\/p>\n

Official Counter: Matt Zeitler<\/p>\n

Observers: Carol Linguanti<\/p>\n

Visitors:
\nVisitors included: Karen Miller, Carol Linguanti, Carol Pastushok, and
\nGrace Woleslagle.
\nWeather:
\nCool and cloudy with a light drizzle beginning in the third hour of the
\nwatch and developing into rain on and off during the last hour and a half
\nof the watch. Winds were from the East at 10 km\/hr and temperatures ranged
\nfrom 12 to 15 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:
\nDuring the third hour of the watch, 301 Broad-winged Hawks were observed.
\nKettles formed to the northeast of the platform and most birds flew
\ndirectly over the viewing platform – low for Broad-winged Hawks, all could
\nbe seen easily with the naked eye.<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:
\nOther bird species observed: Northern Cardinal (2), Black-capped Chickadee
\n(5), Tufted Titmouse (2), Downy Woodpecker (2), American Crow (4), Canada
\nGoose (3), American Goldfinch (3), Pileated Woodpecker (1), Blue Jay (4),
\nChimney Swift (5), Gray Catbird (1), Red-bellied Woodpecker (2),
\nBlack-and-white Warbler (1)<\/p>\n

**ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DATE AT ORANGEBIRDING.COM: American Golden-Plovers<\/a> in Pine Island.**<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did my first shift of the year as counter at Mt. Peter Hawk Watch last Saturday. I didn’t do a blog post because it was uneventful – I counted only 5 migrating hawks in 6 hours of observation. Today was quite a different story. Despite the cloudy and drizzly weather, I surpassed last week’s … Continue reading “Mt. Peter Hawk Watch 9\/13\/14”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-QR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}