{"id":11419,"date":"2022-01-23T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:38:40","slug":"sunday-shots-01-23-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11419","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots 01\/23\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have to say that I am really enjoying winter birding these days. I love the cold, crisp weather, and the birds have been pretty darn cooperative. I also think that because I can’t bird during the week at this time of the year, I really get into it on the weekends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I split both mornings between the black dirt and Campbell Hall, where two times I caught up with the LARK SPARROW that was found by Jeanne Cimorelli earlier this week. I was pretty happy that bird stuck around til the weekend. The black dirt was productive both mornings; I had loads of Horned Larks, good sized flock of Snow Buntings, (8) American Pipits, and at least (3) LAPLAND LONGSPURS. Also notable were large flocks of both Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles (at two different locations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A flock of Red-winged Blackbirds in flight in the black dirt, 01\/23\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Lark in the black dirt on Saturday morning, 01\/22\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday afternoon I went to the Newburgh Waterfront for gulls, where I ended up birding with Bruce Nott, Joe Chernak, and Jeanne Cimorelli. Bruce located one, maybe two Iceland Gulls (the gulls picked up before we could confirm), and I was able to locate a Glaucous Gull. With the expected gulls, that made for a (5) gull day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~After struggling with photos Saturday morning, I spent some time shooting Ring-billed Gulls when I first arrived at the Newburgh Waterfront. I like this sharp image of a clean sharp Ring-billed Gull in flight, 01\/22\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am also pretty jazzed about the weekend of birding because I feel like this week’s photos are pretty interesting. I struggled mightily to get good shots on Saturday morning; in spite of the beautiful light, I think the cold temperatures were creating a little havoc in the air, leaving most pics with a shimmer effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Lark Sparrow on Station Road West in Campbell Hall, 01\/22\/22. I waited positively ages for this bird to finally fly to a positition where it wasn’t totally backlit. Then, on Sunday…~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~…I was in the same area trying for Purple Finches (no luck), when the Lark Sparrow landed right next to my car. The light was terrible, but still a pretty good look at this snazzy bird. LASP in Campbell Hall, 01\/23\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One final note – I am also really enjoying my yard birding this year. Moving forward I will be putting a note on the bottom of each post with my yard list total for the year. This week I moved up to 21 species, adding three birds: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal, and a beautiful adult Bald Eagle flyover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snow Bunting in the black dirt first thing this morning, 01\/23\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Pipits in the black dirt, 01\/23\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I thought this was a pretty cool look at the topside of a Red-tailed Hawk in the black dirt, 01\/23\/22. This bird was being totally harassed by American Crows.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LAPLAND LONGSPUR photo bombed by a Horned Lark. Black dirt, 01\/23\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-crowned Sparrow on Missionland Road, 01\/22\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I threw this one in just because I thought it was pretty good that my camera held the focus on this Northern Harrier as it passed behind the vegetation. Black dirt 01\/22\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say that I am really enjoying winter birding these days. I love the cold, crisp weather, and the birds have been pretty darn cooperative. I also think that because I can’t bird during the week at this time of the year, I really get into it on the weekends. I split both … Continue reading “Sunday Shots 01\/23\/22”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Yb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","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=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11438,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/11438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}