{"id":3542,"date":"2016-09-23T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:16:06","slug":"pack-monadnock-hawk-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3542","title":{"rendered":"Pack Monadnock Hawk Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finally made it up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhaudubon.org\/get-outside\/raptor-observatories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pack Monadnock Hawk Watch<\/a>&#8230; on day 22. And what a day it was, perfect weather and lots of hawks.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived just before noon, the the show started shortly there after and continued until around three. I left about 4:30.<\/p>\n<p>The total was about 2,800 birds, about 2,700 of which were broad-wings. Katrina&#8217;s official report can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/nhbirds\/AfMj7ix9L7Q\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 10,000 birds for the season mark was reached and the traditional group photo around the tally board was made (with Katrina&#8217;s camera, but I am sure that it will appear at some point.)<\/p>\n<p>While the bird watching was great, the conditions for photography were not ideal. The raptors were kettling pretty far away; only a few appeared close to the summit. The resident turkey vultures made fairly close approaches at times and I was able to make a few mediocre photos.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=472 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finally made it up to the Pack Monadnock Hawk Watch&#8230; on day 22. And what a day it was, perfect weather and lots of hawks. I arrived just before noon, the the show started shortly there after and continued until around three. I left about 4:30. The total was about 2,800 birds, about [&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":[4,116,92,3],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-early-fall","category-monadnock-region","category-wildlife","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}