{"id":11468,"date":"2022-02-06T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2022-02-06T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:18:37","slug":"sunday-shots-02-06-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 02\/06\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it was yet another gorgeous, cold, sunny, and icy weekend in our area. I wasn’t very adventurous; I stuck to the black dirt and the Hudson River for the most part, but the nice light and the icy conditions made for some really nice photo ops. I enjoyed several continuing good birds: Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspurs, American Pipits, and Iceland Gulls. Interesting new birds for me included the bird of the weekend, a Northern Shrike<\/a>, as well as a Chipping Sparrow and a Field Sparrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snow Bunting taking a look around in the black dirt, 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This week’s photos are heavy on Snow Buntings; I had some good opportunities and I tried to make the most of them because before you know it they will be gone until next winter. I think next weekend I will think about mixing it up a little bit and getting out to some different spots since I’ve been in such a routine recently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (24) – No new birds since my last post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~This was one beautiful gull, just super sharp looking and a joy to behold. Iceland Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 02\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snow Bunting on the move, black dirt region 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I needed some help identifying this bird – I’ve never had a Chipping Sparrow in February before. Black dirt, 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Sharp-shinned Hawk in the black dirt, 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snow Bunting on a nice perch, black dirt 02\/06\/22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I rarely get decent photo ops with Blue Jays, believe it or not. I think they are a smart and wary species. BLJA in the black dirt, 02\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~SNBU in the black dirt, 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Robin in our backyard, 02\/04\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One final Snow Bunting shot. Black dirt region, 02\/05\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it was yet another gorgeous, cold, sunny, and icy weekend in our area. I wasn’t very adventurous; I stuck to the black dirt and the Hudson River for the most part, but the nice light and the icy conditions made for some really nice photo ops. I enjoyed several continuing good birds: Snow Buntings, … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 02\/06\/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_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","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-2YY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","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=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}