{"id":6421,"date":"2016-10-15T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T00:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2016-10-15T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T00:09:20","slug":"mt-peter-hawkwatch-101516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6421","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/15\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Ahhh. The obligatory Turkey Vulture photo. I’ve been slacking on these guys this season; I finally got one today. Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 10\/15\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was not very optimistic as I headed out to do my Saturday of counting at Mount Peter Hawkwatch<\/a>. The wind direction was not going to be favorable, and additionally,\u00a0the forecast was for clear blue skies all day, which is a hawkwatcher’s worst sky. I was pleasantly surprised to have a pretty good flight in spite of the adverse conditions. I had a total of 52 migrating raptors, most of which were Sharp-shinned Hawks. The highlight of the day was getting absolutely killer looks at a couple of adult Red-shouldered Hawks in the scope as they migrated through. Big thanks to Denise Farrell who helped me out for most of the day. Here’s my report:<\/p>\n

\"screen-shot-2016-10-15-at-6-54-09-pm\"<\/a>Official Counter:<\/strong> Matt Zeitler
\nObservers:<\/strong> Denise Farrell<\/p>\n

Visitors:<\/strong>
\nPam Bryant and Joe Zera<\/p>\n

Weather:<\/strong>
\nSunny with almost no clouds. Gentle winds from the east early on and shifting to the south. Temperatures ranged from 6 to 19 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

Raptor Observations:<\/strong>
\n-One immature Bald Eagle -One unknown, one immature, and 3 adult Red-shouldered Hawks. -One unknown American Kestrel<\/p>\n

Non-raptor Observations:<\/strong>
\nOther species: Cedar Waxwing (30), American Crow (13), Common Raven (4), Black-capped Chickadee (6), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1), Blue Jay (25), Canada Goose (11), Northern Cardinal (1), American Goldfinch (5), White-breasted Nuthatch (1), Red-breasted Nuthatch (1), Blackpoll Warbler (1), Eastern Bluebird (2), Yellow-rumped Warbler (4), American Robin (2), House Finch (1), Red-bellied Woodpecker (2), Ring-billed Gull (4), Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1).<\/p>\n

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~Blackpoll Warbler at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/15\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One of my favorites – Yellow-bellied Sapsucker located by Denise at\u00a0Mt. Pete today, 10\/15\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was not very optimistic as I headed out to do my Saturday of counting at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. The wind direction was not going to be favorable, and additionally,\u00a0the forecast was for clear blue skies all day, which is a hawkwatcher’s worst sky. I was pleasantly surprised to have a pretty good flight in … Continue reading “Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/15\/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_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":[25,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6421","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-1Fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","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=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}