{"id":10805,"date":"2021-05-02T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2021-05-02T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:11:41","slug":"another-good-weekend-05-02-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10805","title":{"rendered":"Another Good Weekend, 05\/02\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been wanting to see a Porcupine for ages, but for some reason or other, I never crossed paths with one since I’ve been in the area (11+ years now!). Well, this weekend I saw three, lol. The first one was on a seasonably cold and windy hike at High Point State Park with my brother-in-law Bill on Saturday morning. We hiked for just over 9 miles; the views from High Point were impressive, the number of birds, not so much with just 18 species tallied. The Porcupine was far and away the highlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Blue-winged Warbler at the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area, 05\/02\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning I headed out to the Bashakill to try my luck there. It’s been ages since I’d been there and it did not disappoint. I immediately ran into John Haas <\/a>and Scotty Baldinger with a couple other birders when I parked at the front of the Stop Sign Trail. I figured the smart money was on sticking with them – they attract warblers and birds in general like nobody’s business. I wasn’t wrong, the place was hopping with birds, but the first thing that got my attention was not one, but two Porcupines sleeping up in trees! What a weird coincidence! As for the birds, I covered some good territory and counted just under 60 species for the morning, eleven of which were warblers. There were also many birders out and about – too many to mention by name. It was good to catch up with some folks I haven’t seen in a while. Birding highlights for me included excellent looks at Blue-winged and Black-throated Blue Warblers at the Stop Sign Trail, decent looks at a high, singing Cerulean Warbler and a Yellow-throated Vireo at the Horseshoe Trail, and a calling Virginia Rail at the Deli Fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Porcupine at High Point State Park, 05\/01\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black-throated Blue Warbler at the Bashakill, 05\/02\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet at the Bashakill, 05\/02\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Porcupine at the Bashakill, 05\/02\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Orange County Sandhill Crane from earlier in the week.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Not a great shot, but I wanted to include one more shot from High Point State Park. Black-and-white Warbler 05\/01\/02.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to see a Porcupine for ages, but for some reason or other, I never crossed paths with one since I’ve been in the area (11+ years now!). Well, this weekend I saw three, lol. The first one was on a seasonably cold and windy hike at High Point State Park with my … Continue reading “Another Good Weekend, 05\/02\/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_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":[19,18,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-songbirds","category-sullivancounty","category-bashakill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Oh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","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=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10819,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}