{"id":5065,"date":"2015-10-17T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2015-10-17T19:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:27:23","slug":"wow-mount-peter-golden-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Mount Peter GOLDEN EAGLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~An immature GOLDEN EAGLE<\/strong> soars just to the left of the platform at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wow, great day at Mount Peter Hawkwatch for me – I finally got a GOLDEN EAGLE<\/strong>! This is the first one I have seen at Mount Peter, and it was by far my best look ever at a Golden Eagle. I located a large raptor to the northwest of the viewing platform. In my binoculars I could not determine what it was, I was thinking possibly a vulture. I got the bird in my spotting scope and it became clear that it could possibly be a Golden. The bird worked its way closer to the platform, still quite\u00a0high up, but in great light. \u00a0I was so excited, I didn’t even know what to do with myself! I knew that I needed to photograph it to document it at least, even if the bird was a bit too high for great pics.\u00a0The remainder of the watch\u00a0was pretty good too, I had 71 migrating raptors including 2 immature Bald Eagles, 4 Red-shouldered Hawks, and 5 (!) Merlins. See below for my complete report from the day.<\/p>\n

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~This one made me happy – Red-Shouldered Hawk at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A local Red-tailed Hawk finally came in close enough for a photo. Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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: Rob Stone<\/p>\n

Visitors:
\nRichie Freud, Mike X, and Fred and Donna Paley from York, Pennsylvania, and who are currently doing a tour of Hawkwatches. They spent the morning at Scott’s Mountain in Harmony, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Weather:
\nSunny with some clouds with a steady wind from the northwest. Temperatures ranged from 4 to 9 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:
\nMigrating Raptors: (2) Immature Bald Eagles, (1) immature Northern Harrier, (1) adult Red-shouldered Hawk, (1) immature Red-shouldered Hawk, (2) unknown Red-shouldered Hawks, (1) unknown American Kestrel, and the highlight of the day, at 10:20 EST, (1) immature GOLDEN EAGLE was spotted to the north of the viewing platform, soared just to the left of the platform and then headed southwest. Non-migrating raptors included (2) adult Bald Eagles; one headed north, the other northeast.<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:
\nNon-raptor Species: Eastern Bluebird (2), Blue Jay (15), American Robin (6), Common Raven (6), American Goldfinch (3), Yellow-rumped Warbler (3), Cedar Waxwing (2), Black-throated Green Warbler (1), Ring-billed Gull (1), Northern Flicker (1), European Starling (75), American Crow (10), and Canada Goose (812).<\/p>\n

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~I shot this Sharp-shinned Hawk at Mt. Peter on Thursday, 10\/15\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One more shot of the Golden Eagle, Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, great day at Mount Peter Hawkwatch for me – I finally got a GOLDEN EAGLE! This is the first one I have seen at Mount Peter, and it was by far my best look ever at a Golden Eagle. I located a large raptor to the northwest of the viewing platform. In my binoculars … Continue reading “Wow! Mount Peter GOLDEN EAGLE!”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1jH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}