{"id":10695,"date":"2021-03-06T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2021-03-06T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:11:15","slug":"grasslands-03-06-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10695","title":{"rendered":"Grasslands, 03\/06\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In spite of less than ideal conditions, I decided to head out to the Grasslands for sunrise this morning. By less than ideal conditions, I mean it was partly to mostly cloudy with a pretty strong northwest wind. Ideally I would prefer the steady morning sun and a south wind (so that the raptors hunt facing south, keeping the sun on their face and at my back). Anyways, I got there quite early and I was able to get into the only blind that’s open on the weekends (southernmost blind). While the strong winds seemed to keep the birds from flying quite as much as I would have liked, I had some decent opportunities and some nice birds. Raptors included Northern Harriers (4), Rough-legged Hawks (3), Red-tailed Hawks (3), a couple of Turkey Vultures, and a single American Kestrel. One other highlight was my first Eastern Meadowlark of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Gray Ghost getting ready to go down. Grasslands 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Male NOHA in flight with some snow flurries at the Grasslands, 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Boy I wish this bird would have come closer – how beautiful is this beast?!? Rough-legged Hawk over horizon at the Grasslands, 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Kestrel at the Grasslands, 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Gray Ghost over the trees. Grasslands, 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~NOHA, Grasslands 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more of the Gray Ghost, Grasslands 03\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~After the Grasslands, I headed up to Rhinebeck to chase the two BARROW’S GOLDENEYES which have been seen there. I dipped on the female, but did catch up with the male (above) on River Road, where I joined Karen Miller who got me on the bird shortly after my arrival.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In spite of less than ideal conditions, I decided to head out to the Grasslands for sunrise this morning. By less than ideal conditions, I mean it was partly to mostly cloudy with a pretty strong northwest wind. Ideally I would prefer the steady morning sun and a south wind (so that the raptors hunt … Continue reading “Grasslands, 03\/06\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,12,15,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-rarities","category-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Mv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","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=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}