{"id":5141,"date":"2015-11-07T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2015-11-07T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:32:27","slug":"mount-peter-hawkwatch-11715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5141","title":{"rendered":"Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/7\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~The lighting was absolutely terrible for photos today, so this is a Red-tailed Hawk I shot earlier this week at Wickham Woodlands Town Park, 11\/1\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly, today was my final\u00a0day of counting at Mount Peter for the season. Next Saturday was supposed to be my last day, but I unfortunately now have to go to work that day.\u00a0I went out on a pretty good note – after a relatively slow week at\u00a0Mt. Pete, I had good northwest winds and cooler temperatures, and a total of 61 migrating raptors for the day. Highlights included a Peregrine Falcon and two adult Bald Eagles. Red-tailed Hawks topped the numbers today with a total of 20 migrating birds and at least 4 locals. I had plenty of help up there today – thanks to Ajit Antony, Liza Antony, Carol Linguanti, and Rob Stone who all stopped by.<\/p>\n

This was my third and certainly best season at Mount Peter. The Golden Eagle I had on October 17th<\/a> was a personal highlight, and after my first week when I had only 17 birds, I had pretty good daily\u00a0totals for\u00a0the rest of the season. It was a great year for Mount Peter Hawkwatch too, with the highest ever season total of Broad-winged Hawks (11,256) and we are on track to have the second-highest season total of the watch’s 58 years in operation.<\/p>\n

Here’s today’s report:<\/p>\n

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Observation start time: 09:00:00
\nObservation end time: 16:00:00
\nTotal observation time: 7 hours
\nOfficial Counter Matt Zeitler
\nObservers: Ajit I. Antony, Carol Linguanti, Liza Antony, Rob Stone
\nWeather:
\nCloudy and cool with a northwest wind all day. Temperatures ranged from 11 to 13 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:
\nMigrating Raptors: (2) Adult Bald Eagles, (3) Unknown Red-shouldered Hawks, and (3) Adult Red-shouldered Hawks. Non-migrating Raptors: (2) Additional adult Bald Eagles headed north. Poor lighting today silhouetted most birds, making identification that much more challenging.<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:
\nBlue Jay (22), American Crow (46), Downy Woodpecker (2), Common Raven (5), White-breasted Nuthatch (1), American Robin (26), Canada Goose (95), Eastern Bluebird (8), American Goldfinch (3), Red-bellied Woodpecker (1), Cedar Waxwing (18), Ring-billed Gull (11), Common Loon (1).<\/p>\n

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~This Red-shouldered Hawk flew directly over the platform. Horrible photo, great bird. Mount Peter Hawkwatch 11\/7\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly, today was my final\u00a0day of counting at Mount Peter for the season. Next Saturday was supposed to be my last day, but I unfortunately now have to go to work that day.\u00a0I went out on a pretty good note – after a relatively slow week at\u00a0Mt. Pete, I had good northwest winds and cooler … Continue reading “Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 11\/7\/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_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1kV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","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=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}