{"id":672,"date":"2008-09-20T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:20","slug":"skywatching-for-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Skywatching for hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/montclairraven.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247899340763753058\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" height=\"209\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/montclairraven-300x200.jpg\" width=\"314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I know it&#8217;s a Raven, but it&#8217;s the best bird pic I got today during a couple hours spent at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njaudubon.org\/Sites\/hwmont.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Montclair Hawkwatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">. The hawkwatch site is NJ Audubon&#8217;s smallest sanctuary and the second oldest continuous- running hawkwatch in the country, second only to Hawk Mountain in Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Finding hawks at a ridge site, as opposed to a coastal watch like Sandy Hook or Cape May, is really difficult and requires a lot of patience and much better eyesight than I have. We were looking at speck birds for most of the day! I did get to see a few kettles of Broadwings way up in the clouds (yesterday <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkcount.org\/month_summary.php\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">they counted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> 4437 Broadwings), some Osprey and Sharpies, a couple Kestrals and had a nice look at a Peregrine<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SNRdDLn8nzI\/AAAAAAAACA0\/Xy9gzY0heRQ\/s800-h\/empireview.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247921775034801970\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/empireview-300x254.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">.<\/p>\n<p>We had to be glad for all those clouds in the sky cause they gave us landmarks to help locate the birds soaring high above. A fun day, but I prefer coastal hawkwatching that doesn&#8217;t require quite as much imagination!<\/p>\n<p>I met <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/steve_byland\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">this guy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> there who has some fantastic hawk pics on his Flickr site.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> for more Friday Skywatch posts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s a Raven, but it&#8217;s the best bird pic I got today during a couple hours spent at the Montclair Hawkwatch. The hawkwatch site is NJ Audubon&#8217;s smallest sanctuary and the second oldest continuous- running hawkwatch in the country, second only to Hawk Mountain in Pa. Finding hawks at a ridge site, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skywatching for hawks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}