{"id":11502,"date":"2022-02-20T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2022-02-20T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:31:46","slug":"sunday-shots-02-20-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11502","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 02\/20\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my goals for 2022 is to break 200 species in Sullivan County (I’m currently at 194). I’ve come up with a short list of possible species to try and catch up with, and Northern Shrike is on it. So, on Saturday morning I headed to the Bashakill to try for the shrike which was there earlier this week. I dipped on my target bird, but it didn’t prevent me from having a nice morning birding the Deli Fields. I ran into and caught up with John Haas (Bashakill Birder<\/a>). John mentioned that it was a slow morning there, but I had 23 species, which didn’t seem too bad to me. My best bird was a Hermit Thrush that popped up briefly before disappearing into the underbrush. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Northern Shrike at Wickham Woodlands Park, 02\/20\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was back in Orange County for the afternoon and evening, spending most of my time at the Newburgh Riverfront. I enjoyed birding the river and there was enough going on to keep me entertained. The highlight was (3) first winter Iceland Gulls, which I can’t get enough of, but I won’t torture you with yet another pic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Common Merganser at the Newburgh Waterfront, 02\/19\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning I tried for the Northern Shrike at Wickham Woodlands Park. With this shrike, I had better luck. The bird was vocalizing frequently and perched close enough at one point to get a decent shot. I was pretty excited, it was fun to actually spend some time with a shrike rather than just a few moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Two Canvasbacks relaxing in the Hudson River at Piermont Pier, 02\/20\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, I headed to Piermont Pier. Earlier this week a Little Gull was reported there, and while I know the chances of seeing that bird were astronomical, I figured I would go and just enjoy birding the pier. It was good to see some different ducks – Canvasbacks, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, and a single Common Goldeneye. Gulls were scarce and I only recorded the (3) expected species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (25) – No new species since my last post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~This is a bird I don’t get to photograph very often. Pileated Woodpecker at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 02\/19\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~The Deli Fields had loads of Eastern Bluebirds on Saturday morning, 02\/19\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Orange County Barred Owl, my first of the year, 02\/19\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Northern Shrike at Wickham Woodlands Park, 02\/20\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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One of my goals for 2022 is to break 200 species in Sullivan County (I’m currently at 194). I’ve come up with a short list of possible species to try and catch up with, and Northern Shrike is on it. So, on Saturday morning I headed to the Bashakill to try for the shrike which … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 02\/20\/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":[6,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Zw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502","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=11502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11512,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions\/11512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}