{"id":5015,"date":"2015-10-05T20:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T00:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2015-10-06T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T23:38:29","slug":"state-line-lookout-10515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A local Red-tailed Hawk flies in over the Hudson River at eye level. State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If it wasn’t for Kyle Dudgeon’s persistence, we would have missed a lot of good birds. We met up at 7:30 am and arrived around 8:15, just in time to catch one of the local Peregrine Falcons enjoying a meal at “the perch”. We had many good birds early on, including several Bald Eagles, but the lighting was pretty bad; all the early photos in this post have a stark white background. I haven’t shot hawks in flight for an extended period of time like this in a while and I definitely felt rusty. I was having a hard time keeping up with the birds (and camera settings!), particularly the Peregrines which move so fast it’s incredible. I managed to get some good\u00a0shots, but really I felt like I could have done better;\u00a0that many opportunities had slipped by.\u00a0I guess that will motivate\u00a0me for the next outing.<\/p>\n

We were joined by Jill Homcy and then a little later on by Maria Loukeris. We all enjoyed a good mix of local raptors (Peregrine Falcons, Bald Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and Osprey) and migrating raptors which were lead by Osprey (35), followed by a tie between two accipiters Sharp-shinned Hawks (28) and Cooper’s Hawks (28). \u00a0I felt like they must have been having a pretty good day for migration, I checked when I got home and according the Hawkcount.org,<\/a> the\u00a0total count for the day\u00a0at State Line Lookout\u00a0was 121 migrating raptors. It was a really enjoyable day for me, with good company and plenty of super birds to photograph.<\/p>\n

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~A local Peregrine Falcon enjoys and early morning meal. State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This was one of our first birds of the day – eye level Cooper’s Hawk at State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An immature Cooper’s Hawk flies over, State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This is not the clearest shot, but I love seeing the top of the bird like this. Sharp-shinned Hawk at State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I’m not sure how folks will react to this photo, but it is one of my favorites from the day. A Cooper’s Hawk maneuvering overhead at State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk over the water, State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Immature Bald Eagle flyover, State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Not the best shots, but a cool interaction between and adult and an immature Peregrine Falcon. State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This one is a few shots later – can’t believe the adult is totally upside down! Peregrine Falcons at State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~We did not see many American Kestrels, this one whipped by getting blown around by the wind. State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it wasn’t for Kyle Dudgeon’s persistence, we would have missed a lot of good birds. We met up at 7:30 am and arrived around 8:15, just in time to catch one of the local Peregrine Falcons enjoying a meal at “the perch”. We had many good birds early on, including several Bald Eagles, but … Continue reading “State Line Lookout, 10\/4\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1iT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}