{"id":8039,"date":"2018-04-15T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T23:28:05","slug":"spring-raptor-migration-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Spring Raptor Migration in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Kent did not have any photos with this post, so I figured I would tack on one of my own recent shots – Bald Eagle flyover at Glenmere Lake last weekend, 04\/07\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I recently invited several of the more prolific birders\u00a0in\u00a0our area to contribute to the blog whenever they have something that they feel is worth sharing. I think there is a lot of good birding going on that folks would like to hear about, and the end result should be a little more complete coverage of the birds and birding in our area. Kent Warner is the first to take me up on the offer. The timing is perfect too, since I was out of town all weekend and didn’t get any birding done. \u00a0I found this post very interesting because, generally speaking, not much attention is paid to raptor migration here in Orange County.<\/i><\/p>\n

SPRING RAPTOR MIGRATION IN ORANGE COUNTY<\/strong><\/p>\n

BY KENT WARNER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today was a stunner at Bellvale Community for raptors especially. As the sun warmed, and the updrafts started, the first couple of broad-winged hawks, passed low overhead. As the day continued, despite a stiff north breeze, the raptors kept coming \u2013 predominantly \u00a0Broad-winged Hawks and Turkey Vultures, but a little of everything showed. Here is a list of what I saw\u2026<\/p>\n

Broad-winged Hawk \u2013 450 (very conservative estimate of just the ones I saw, there were definitely more)<\/p>\n

Turkey Vulture – 45<\/p>\n

Black Vulture \u2013 6<\/p>\n

Osprey \u2013 16<\/p>\n

Northern Harrier \u2013 3<\/p>\n

Sharp-shinned Hawk \u2013 3<\/p>\n

Cooper’s Hawk \u2013 5<\/p>\n

Bald Eagle \u2013 5<\/p>\n

Red-Shouldered Hawk \u2013 1<\/p>\n

Red-tailed Hawk \u2013 6<\/p>\n

American Kestrel \u2013 6<\/p>\n

Merlin \u2013 1<\/p>\n

Peregrine Falcon\u00a0\u2013 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently invited several of the more prolific birders\u00a0in\u00a0our area to contribute to the blog whenever they have something that they feel is worth sharing. I think there is a lot of good birding going on that folks would like to hear about, and the end result should be a little more complete coverage of … Continue reading “Spring Raptor Migration in Orange County”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","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-25F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","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=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}