{"id":11309,"date":"2021-12-19T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2021-12-19T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T21:46:35","slug":"sunday-shots-12-19-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11309","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 12\/19\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I enjoyed good birding on both days of the weekend, but the highlight undoubtedly came early Saturday morning when I relocated the FRANKLIN’S GULL which was reported at the Newburgh Waterfront on Thursday and Friday. I feared that with the drop in temperature and the rainy weather the bird might have moved on, but fortunately that was not the case. FRGU is a really good bird anywhere in New York State, and now I’ve seen two right here in Orange County. To say I got a better look at this bird than the one in July of 2020<\/a> would be a huge understatement. This bird was very cooperative and I enjoyed fantastic looks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Franklin’s Gull in flight, Newburgh Waterfront 12\/18\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sunday was a different kind of day. The weather turned out to be very nice – crisp and cool with a mix of sun and clouds. I headed out to the black dirt, and early on it seemed to be quite birdy, so I decided to count my total species for the morning of birding. Which, surprisingly, is not something I do very often. I cruised the black dirt, spend a few minutes at the viewing platform at Liberty Marsh, went to Wickham Lake, and finished up at Greenwood Lake. I had a total of 43 species for the morning, which doesn’t seem too bad for this time of the year. I had a some nice surprises – a Brown Creeper at Celery Ave, (8) Northern Shovelers at Liberty Marsh, my first Merlin in ages on Onion Ave, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Wickham Lake. I’ve included my complete list below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Wickham Lake, 12\/19\/21~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Goldfinch at Celery Ave, 12\/19\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Not a great shot, but it’s been too long since I’ve seen\/photographed a Merlin. Onion Ave, 12\/19\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Brown Creeper trying to hide from me. Celery Ave, 12\/19\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Franklin’s Gull in Newburgh NY, 12\/18\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
  1. Canada Goose<\/li>
  2. Mute Swan<\/li>
  3. Northern Shoveler<\/li>
  4. Gadwall<\/li>
  5. American Wigeon<\/li>
  6. Mallard<\/li>
  7. Ring-necked Duck<\/li>
  8. Greater Scaup<\/li>
  9. Bufflehead<\/li>
  10. Hooded Merganser<\/li>
  11. Common Merganser<\/li>
  12. Rock Pigeon<\/li>
  13. Mourning Dove<\/li>
  14. Ring-billed Gull<\/li>
  15. Black Vulture<\/li>
  16. Turkey Vulture<\/li>
  17. Northern Harrier<\/li>
  18. Cooper’s Hawk<\/li>
  19. Bald Eagle<\/li>
  20. Red-tailed Hawk<\/li>
  21. Red-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>
  22. Downy Woodpecker<\/li>
  23. Northern Flicker<\/li>
  24. Merlin<\/li>
  25. Blue Jay<\/li>
  26. American Crow<\/li>
  27. Ruby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>
  28. White-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>
  29. Brown Creeper<\/li>
  30. Carolina Wren<\/li>
  31. European Starling<\/li>
  32. Northern Mockingbird<\/li>
  33. Eastern Bluebird<\/li>
  34. American Robin<\/li>
  35. House Sparrow<\/li>
  36. House Finch<\/li>
  37. American Goldfinch<\/li>
  38. American Tree Sparrow<\/li>
  39. Dark-eyed Junco<\/li>
  40. White-crowned Sparrow<\/li>
  41. White-throated Sparrow<\/li>
  42. Song Sparrow<\/li>
  43. Northern Cardinal<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I enjoyed good birding on both days of the weekend, but the highlight undoubtedly came early Saturday morning when I relocated the FRANKLIN’S GULL which was reported at the Newburgh Waterfront on Thursday and Friday. I feared that with the drop in temperature and the rainy weather the bird might have moved on, but fortunately … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 12\/19\/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":[36,6,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Wp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309","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=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11320,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions\/11320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}