{"id":10047,"date":"2020-05-16T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2020-05-16T21:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T01:47:35","slug":"a-good-morning-05-16-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10047","title":{"rendered":"A Good Morning, 05\/16\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I can’t imagine many other birders feel this way, but warblers stress me out. Every spring I worry that I’m not going to be at the right place, on the right day, at the right time, and poof all the migrating warblers will be gone. It’s never happened, I always get my share, but this is what I do. Fortunately, today I was in the right place at the right time. After a relatively uneventful visit to Pochuck Mountain early this morning, I headed to Laurel Grove Cemetery, where I met up with Linda Scrima. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~We had at least half a dozen Bay-breasted Warblers at Laurel Grove this morning. They spent most of their time in the shadows, but I caught this one in good light.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In spite of our late(ish) arrival, the place was hopping. And the birds lingered into the late morning, an unusual occurence at this location. We had a total of 13 species of warbler, highlighted by several Cape May Warblers, at least six Bay-breasted Warblers, a couple of Blackburnian Warblers, at least a couple of Magnolia Warblers, and a single Canada Warbler. Other good birds included Blue-headed Vireo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Least Flycatchers (2), and I got my first Eastern Kingbird of the year. We had a total of 42 species for the morning, and some decent photos to boot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Cape May Warbler at LGC, 05\/16\/20.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This was probably my favorite bird of the day: Canada Warbler at LGC, 05\/16\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Not as flashy as the male, but still pretty in her own way, female Cape May Warbler at LGC 05\/16\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Robin amongst the headstones at LGC, 05\/16\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cape May Warbler at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/16\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Magnolia Warbler at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/16\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~The disappointment of the day – in spite of ample opportunity, this is the best shot I got of a Blackburnian Warbler. So many blurry shots! Maybe next time.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine many other birders feel this way, but warblers stress me out. Every spring I worry that I’m not going to be at the right place, on the right day, at the right time, and poof all the migrating warblers will be gone. It’s never happened, I always get my share, but this … Continue reading “A Good Morning, 05\/16\/20”<\/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":[6,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2C3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047","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=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}