{"id":7516,"date":"2017-10-08T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2017-10-08T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:57:11","slug":"mount-peter-hawkwatch-100717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7516","title":{"rendered":"Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/07\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~This Blue Jay was striking a funny pose when I arrived at Mt. Peter, 10\/07\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all know how crazy the weather has been this fall; it’s the summer that wouldn’t end. That being said, I was not very optimistic going into Saturday’s hawkwatch, with the warm temperatures and south\/southeast winds on tap. It was a slow start, and I didn’t get all that many migrating raptors (31), but I had excellent variety with a total of 8 different migrating species. It made me think about when I first started going hawk watching at Hawk Mountain many years ago. I usually chose early to mid October because it offered the best variety of birds – I had looked at previous years data on their website<\/a> to figure it out. Jeff Zahn visited early and missed out on most of the birds. Kent Warner showed up a little later and things started to heat up and we got some Sharp-shinned Hawks. But, it was when Sylvia Kleff and Robert Montgomery showed up that things got good. They really brought the birds with them, and together we saw 7 of the 8 migrating species in a little over an hour’s time (Sylvia and Robert – the Bald Eagle came through only 10 minutes after you left!). \u00a0See my report at the bottom of this post. It was a pretty decent day of hawkwatching, all things considered.<\/p>\n

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~Ha ha! I’m switching up my Turkey Vulture pic a little bit. I saw this young TUVU enjoying a meal in the black dirt on Sunday afternoon.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An American Kestrel zooms past the viewing platform on the east side. Mt. Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/07\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~My first Ring-necked Pheasant in Orange County for the year. The question is, is this bird countable. I saw it at Skinner’s Lane, an area where as far I know, it is common knowledge that the birds are released for hunting purposes. In the past I’ve counted these birds, this year I am questioning it – any thoughts? ~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We all know how crazy the weather has been this fall; it’s the summer that wouldn’t end. That being said, I was not very optimistic going into Saturday’s hawkwatch, with the warm temperatures and south\/southeast winds on tap. It was a slow start, and I didn’t get all that many migrating raptors (31), but I … Continue reading “Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/07\/17”<\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1Xe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","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=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}