{"id":10901,"date":"2021-06-20T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2021-06-20T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:46:01","slug":"sunday-shots-06-20-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10901","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 06\/20\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early Saturday morning I went to Black Rock Forest and hiked up to Jupiter’s Boulder. I was trying for Ruffed Grouse, but unfortunately I had no luck. I did pick up my first Acadian Flycatchers of the year; it’s always nice to see and hear that bird. Afterwards, I went to Newburgh to follow up on an eBird report of a pair of Eurasian Collared-Doves, but again I had no luck. On my way home a played a hunch and went to the OC Airport to see if the Killdeer there had a second brood. They did, there was one young bird with two adults; the bird was so small it kept tipping over, lol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A young Killdeer seemingly mimicking its parent, OC Airport 06\/19\/21.~<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I went to the south end of the Liberty Loop. I’ve been meaning to get out there to try for Least Bitterns, so I finally did today and they did not disappoint. Once again, the southernmost compound at the loop is loaded with good birds during the summer. Least Bitterns were the big draw, but I also enjoyed seeing a young Pied-billed Grebe, many Common Gallinules, Killdeer, and loads of Wood Ducks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Least Bittern at the Liberty Loop, 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~What a cutie. Killdeer chick at OC Airport, 06\/19\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Least Bittern in flight at the Liberty Loop, 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A nice look at a female Red-winged Blackbird. Liberty Loop 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LEBI at the Loop, 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of many Common Gallinules at the back pond of the Liberty Loop, 06\/20\/21.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer chick with parent, 06\/19\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LIBI at the Loop, 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wing flap from a young Pied-billed Grebe, 06\/20\/21. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And one final Least Bittern shot, Liberty Loop 06\/20\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Saturday morning I went to Black Rock Forest and hiked up to Jupiter’s Boulder. I was trying for Ruffed Grouse, but unfortunately I had no luck. I did pick up my first Acadian Flycatchers of the year; it’s always nice to see and hear that bird. Afterwards, I went to Newburgh to follow up … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 06\/20\/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":[6,19,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-sussexcounty","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2PP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","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=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10918,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}