{"id":4970,"date":"2015-09-19T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2015-09-19T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:55:12","slug":"mt-peter-hawkwatch-91915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4970","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 9\/19\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~I didn’t have many photo ops today on the mountain, but we did have an early Sharp-shinned Hawk which flew over pretty close to the platform.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the three days prior to today, Mt. Peter Hawkwatch had over 6,400 migrating hawks! Pretty amazing right? Of course, I was working and or busy and could not make it out for any of the three days. But, I was on as counter today… how many kettles of Broad-winged Hawks would I have? How many total\u00a0migrating hawks would I count? How many thousands? Um… how about 34 migrating hawks? They can’t all be winners. It was actually a nice day up on the mountain with great company, the only thing lacking was the birds. Tomorrow is another day! Here is my report:<\/p>\n

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Observation start time: 08:00:00
\nObservation end time: 16:00:00
\nTotal observation time: 8 hours
\nOfficial Counter Matt Zeitler
\nObservers: Ajit I. Antony, Bill Connolly, Denise Farrell, Liza Antony, Tom Millard<\/p>\n

Visitors:<\/strong>
\nDon Leak, Bob Montgomery, and Silvia Kleff.<\/p>\n

Weather:<\/strong>
\nMostly sunny and warm with some clounds. Light wind coming from the south\/southwest. Temperatures ranged from 18 to 30 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:<\/strong>
\nMigrating Raptors: One unknown and 2 male American Kestrels. Non-migrating Raptors: At 1:20 two adult Bald Eagles were observed flying low over the valley. They eventually headed north.<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:<\/strong>
\nCedar Waxwing (23), Blue Jay (40+), Red-bellied Woodpecker (2), Downy Woodpecker, Black-capped Chickadee (3), Chimney Swift (3), Tree Swallow, American Goldfinch (18), Eastern Phoebe, Carolina Wren, Rock Pigeon (6), Ring-billed Gull (2), and Monarch butterfly (22)<\/p>\n

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On a more positive note, on my way home I passed through the black dirt and finally located (3) American Golden-Plovers<\/strong>! The birds were distant, so no good pics, but I was happy to get them for Orange County.<\/p>\n

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~A distant, documentary look at one of the three American Golden-Plovers I had in the black dirt tonight, 9\/19\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This was actually taken earlier this week – Northern Harrier just before sunset in the black dirt, 9\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the three days prior to today, Mt. Peter Hawkwatch had over 6,400 migrating hawks! Pretty amazing right? Of course, I was working and or busy and could not make it out for any of the three days. But, I was on as counter today… how many kettles of Broad-winged Hawks would I have? How … Continue reading “Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 9\/19\/15”<\/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_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":[23,6,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-raptors","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1ia","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}