{"id":7448,"date":"2017-09-19T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2017-09-19T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:14:21","slug":"common-nighthawk-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7448","title":{"rendered":"Common Nighthawk in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7449\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1883\" height=\"1255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit.jpg 1883w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090417-CONI5-Edit-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>After a spring where I didn&#8217;t see any in the county, I&#8217;ve been fortunate this fall when it comes to Common Nighthawks. I&#8217;ve had nearly a dozen sitings in Orange County, including two occasions when they flew right over our house in Goshen, NY. I was on my way home on September 4th in the evening, when I noticed this bird as it, and several others, hawked insects over the small ice cream stand on the corner of Matthews Street and West Main in Goshen. I pulled over and grabbed my camera. I was pretty excited since the birds were up early and I had good light. I enjoyed trying to track the birds as they flew erratically and hunted; it was certainly a nice end to the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After a spring where I didn&#8217;t see any in the county, I&#8217;ve been fortunate this fall when it comes to Common Nighthawks. I&#8217;ve had nearly a dozen sitings in Orange County, including two occasions when they flew right over our house in Goshen, NY. I was on my way home on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Common Nighthawk in Flight&#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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1W8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","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=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}