{"id":10064,"date":"2020-05-23T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2020-05-23T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:29:45","slug":"saturday-05-23-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10064","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 05\/23\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Low tide in Newburgh was at 7:52 this morning. With that in mind, I headed over to the Hudson River in hopes of getting some shorebirds on the mudflats of Cornwall Bay. As luck would have it, upon my arrival I had 3 unidentified peeps in flight, heading north, never to return. Sigh. From there, I went to the waterfront and ran into birding bud, Bruce Nott on the way. He informed me that the LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL <\/a>was still present. I enjoyed my best looks at the bird, as well as some decent photo ops (in spite of the poor lighting). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Beautiful bird. Lesser Black-backed Gull in flight, Newburgh Waterfront 5\/23\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LBBG in Newburgh this morning, 05\/23\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, Bruce and I met up at Ironwood Drive in Sterling Forest State Park. We enjoyed a pleasant late morning of birding; the cool rainy weather made it quite pleasant and the birds remained quite active. Highlights included our target birds Golden-winged Warbler and Brewster’s Warbler. A bonus was hearing a White-eyed Vireo. The bird called for about 2 minutes, never showed itself, and then nothing! Frustrating, but still very cool. Pics were tough, I included shots of the Brewster’s in my eBird report, but just for documentary purposes. I do, however, have several shots from the past week or so that I’m including here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I forgot about this shot – Chimney Swift at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 05\/13\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is one of a pair of Worm-eating Warblers that I followed down the trail at Sterling Forest last weekend, 05\/17\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is a bird that has been scarce for me this year – Veery at Sterling Forest 05\/17\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Chipping Sparrow at Sterling Forest SP, 05\/17\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Low tide in Newburgh was at 7:52 this morning. With that in mind, I headed over to the Hudson River in hopes of getting some shorebirds on the mudflats of Cornwall Bay. As luck would have it, upon my arrival I had 3 unidentified peeps in flight, heading north, never to return. Sigh. From there, … Continue reading “Saturday, 05\/23\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Ck","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","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=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}