{"id":10936,"date":"2021-07-03T16:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2021-07-03T16:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:11:39","slug":"6-1-2-station-road-07-03-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"6 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/03\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just after sunrise this morning I was hitting the trail at Black Rock Forest. I was, of course, trying for Ruffed Grouse again; it was a total bust. The rain was relentless, the hike was difficult with slippery rocks, and there were hardly any birds – and no grouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, I went home, dried off, got changed and went back out. This time to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary to try for Least Bittern. The rain had finally subsided, it was a cool, pleasant walk on level ground, and yes, I got a Least Bittern. It was actually a pretty productive visit; I had nearly 40 species. I got a decent look at the bittern, as well as a low flying Virginia Rail. I was also able to confirm breeding status for (4) species: Song Sparrow, Common Grackle, Wood Duck, and Common Gallinule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Green Heron at 6 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/03\/21.~<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~MODO at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 07\/03\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Adult female Wood Duck with some sleepy ducklings. ^ 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/03\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Can you see the Least Bittern? It may have been distant, but it was still great to see. This bird was my 177th species in Orange County this year – I haven’t been really going for a big county list this year, and it shows – I’m 15 birds behind last year’s pace. LEBI at 6 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/03\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just after sunrise this morning I was hitting the trail at Black Rock Forest. I was, of course, trying for Ruffed Grouse again; it was a total bust. The rain was relentless, the hike was difficult with slippery rocks, and there were hardly any birds – and no grouse. Afterwards, I went home, dried off, … Continue reading “6 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/03\/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":[11,35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-nys-bba","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Qo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","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=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}