{"id":6324,"date":"2016-09-24T21:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2016-09-24T21:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:28:58","slug":"mt-peter-hawkwatch-92416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 9\/24\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Cape May Warbler pokes its head out at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 9\/24\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a pretty good day at Mount Peter Hawkwatch<\/a> today, especially early in the morning while there was a good\u00a0northwest wind and heavy cloud cover. I had 435 migrating hawks, with 407 of them being Broad-winged Hawks. I had many visitors today, and I want to thank them because they were instrumental in finding many of the\u00a0raptors, especially once the clouds had cleared and the birds were harder to locate. Here’s my report for the day:<\/p>\n

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\nObservation 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:
\nLuke Driscoll, Thomas Driscoll, Mike Limatoli, Sue Dougherty, Peter & Glyn Nixon, Anne and Phil Ribolow, and Matt Vrydacjis.<\/p>\n

Weather:
\nCloudy and cool for the first hour and a half of the watch, then nearly cloudless and warm for the remainder. Wind from the northwest for most of the day. Temperatures ranged from 13 to 21 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:
\nOne adult and one immature Bald Eagle, one unknown Northern Harrier, one unknown Red-shouldered Hawk, and one male American Kestrel.<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:
\nNon Raptor Species: Highlight was a flock of approximately 30 Double-crested Cormorants that passed through, which was very interesting to watch. Other species: Blue Jay (85), Black-capped Chickadee (2), Red-breasted Nuthatch (1), White-breasted Nuthatch (1), Common Raven (2), American Crow (4), Northern Flicker (1), American Goldfinch (2), Ring-billed Gull (7), Chimney Swift (2), Cape May Warbler (2).<\/p>\n

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~One of the local Common Ravens in flight. One day I will get a decent shot of one of these birds. Mt. Pete, 9\/24\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This Cooper’s Hawk was the only bird to go for my new plastic owl that was mounted high above the viewing platform. It was a tough day for photos for me for some reason, and of course this bird came at the owl with the sun at its back. \u00a0Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 9\/24\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a pretty good day at Mount Peter Hawkwatch today, especially early in the morning while there was a good\u00a0northwest wind and heavy cloud cover. I had 435 migrating hawks, with 407 of them being Broad-winged Hawks. I had many visitors today, and I want to thank them because they were instrumental in finding … Continue reading “Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 9\/24\/16”<\/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":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1E0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","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=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}