{"id":2077,"date":"2013-10-25T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2013-10-25T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:28:14","slug":"pack-monadnock-hawk-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"Pack Monadnock Hawk Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday afternoon (arriving just after noon and staying until 4 PM) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhaudubon.org\/locations\/raptor-observatories\" target=\"_blank\">NH Audubon migratory raptor observatory <\/a>on Pack Monadnock in Peterborough. \u00a0It was a slow day&#8230; seven raptors observed when I got there and fourteen for the day. The official report can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/nhbirds\/JhoaUvPwXa8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The day was blustery and cool (mid-40s) but with good layers including a windproof \u00a0outer layer it was not bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the weather, there was a good crowd gathered&#8230; six individuals including Henry, the official counter, were there when I arrived.<\/p>\n<p>As with most of my visits, the birds were generally too far away for photography. I keep hoping for one of those days when the birds appear at eye-level a hundred feet or less away but it hasn&#8217;t happened this year&#8230; yet! The season still has a couple of weeks to go, so there is still hope!<\/p>\n<p>I did manage to grab photos (both are heavily cropped; about a quarter of the frame is shown) of a red-tailed hawk in flight and a merlin that perched briefly on a dead tree.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=243 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday afternoon (arriving just after noon and staying until 4 PM) at the NH Audubon migratory raptor observatory on Pack Monadnock in Peterborough. \u00a0It was a slow day&#8230; seven raptors observed when I got there and fourteen for the day. The official report can be found here. The day was blustery and cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,4,92],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}