{"id":6306,"date":"2016-09-15T20:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:06:25","slug":"mt-peter-is-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6306","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter is Heating Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6307\" style=\"width: 3771px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=6307\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6307\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"3771\" height=\"2938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492.jpg 3771w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_7492-1200x935.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Eight Broad-winged Hawks at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. They \u00a0were part of a 38 bird kettle late this afternoon, 9\/15\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Things are starting to heat up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/613878618652450\/\">Mount Peter Hawkwatch<\/a>; right now\u00a0is prime time for Broad-winged Hawk migration. In the past three days they have counted over 1,300 migrating BWHAs.\u00a0I was up on the mountain on Tuesday and although I did get some birds, I didn&#8217;t have any kettles of Broadies. Today was a different story, I got my first taste of the Broad-winged Hawk migration, seeing two smaller kettles pass over the viewing platform, one with 38 birds and the other with 48 birds. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how many Broadies we will get this year!<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I was out of commission last weekend as I was away on a golf trip in Vermont. This weekend we are spending an extended weekend up in the Adirondacks. I plan on doing plenty of birding while I&#8217;m there, so I will certainly post about it next Thursday when we return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are starting to heat up at Mount Peter Hawkwatch; right now\u00a0is prime time for Broad-winged Hawk migration. In the past three days they have counted over 1,300 migrating BWHAs.\u00a0I was up on the mountain on Tuesday and although I did get some birds, I didn&#8217;t have any kettles of Broadies. Today was a different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mt. Peter is Heating Up&#8221;<\/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":[25,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1DI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","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=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}