{"id":10600,"date":"2021-01-24T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2021-01-24T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:58:25","slug":"a-pretty-good-weekend-01-24-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10600","title":{"rendered":"A Pretty Good Weekend, 01\/24\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday and Sunday were both gorgeous days – mostly sunny, cold, crisp, with a brisk wind out of the north. It was great to just be out and about after a week staring at my work computer. On Saturday I went up to Sullivan County to try for the Northern Shrike near Liberty NY; unfortunately I had no luck. That’s my third time trying for that bird, and I’m sort of feeling like three strikes and you’re out. The trip was still worth it though, I had a single COMMON REDPOLL and a brief look at three EVENING GROSBEAKS, my first of the winter. In the afternoon I went to the Newburgh Waterfront, where I located a first winter ICELAND GULL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~ICELAND GULL at the Newburgh Waterfront on Saturday afternoon, 01\/23\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ring-billed Gull at Newburgh Waterfront. I wish I had this sort of photo op with the Iceland! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning I walked the Winding Waters trail at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. It was a beautiful, freezing cold walk, and I enjoyed it immensely. The highlight was a single COMMON REDPOLL, my first in Orange County this winter. In the early afternoon, Bruce Nott reported a GLAUCOUS GULL at the Newburgh Waterfront. I ran for the bird; when I arrived we actually located a second bird for two GLGUs! Huge thanks to Bruce as always. It was a good weekend, and I even got a few shots to share, which makes me happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Black-capped Chickadee playing in the snow, Woodard Rd Sullivan County 01\/23\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Northern Cardinal on the Winding Waters Trail, 01\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cedar Waxwing in a snow squall. Clement Road in Sullivan County, 01\/23\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Amrican Tree Sparrow, Winding Waters Trail 01\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Beautiful bird. Glaucous Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 01\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Documentary shot of Common Redpoll at Winding Waters, 01\/24\/21. Unfortunately this bird did not stick around for very long…~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday and Sunday were both gorgeous days – mostly sunny, cold, crisp, with a brisk wind out of the north. It was great to just be out and about after a week staring at my work computer. On Saturday I went up to Sullivan County to try for the Northern Shrike near Liberty NY; unfortunately … Continue reading “A Pretty Good Weekend, 01\/24\/21”<\/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":[6,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2KY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","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=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}