{"id":11526,"date":"2022-02-27T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2022-02-27T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:11:01","slug":"sunday-shots-02-27-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11526","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 02\/27\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After yesterday’s gull excitement, today was pretty much a dud. I birded locally; cruising the black dirt early, tried and failed with the Northern Shrike at Wickham Woodlands Park, and then went and to the riverfront. I was hoping the Golden Eagle might be present at Storm King, but no such luck. I think that’s maybe the 6th time I’ve dipped on that bird. Interesting birds today included large numbers of mixed blackbird flocks throughout the black dirt. I had my first Wood Ducks of the year, both on Celery Ave and at Wickham Lake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (25) species. I added Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Hairy Woodpecker this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~MODO in the black dirt, 02\/27\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I swear this photo doesn’t do this bird justice. It was the brightest House Finch I’ve ever seen. My yard, 02\/24\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Turkey Vulture over the backyard, 02\/23\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ring-billed Gull, Suffolk County NY 02\/26\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My dad feeding the Ring-billed Gulls on the south shore of Long Island, 02\/26\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s gull excitement, today was pretty much a dud. I birded locally; cruising the black dirt early, tried and failed with the Northern Shrike at Wickham Woodlands Park, and then went and to the riverfront. I was hoping the Golden Eagle might be present at Storm King, but no such luck. I think that’s … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 02\/27\/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-11526","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-2ZU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","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=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11535,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}