{"id":11560,"date":"2022-03-12T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2022-03-12T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T20:09:11","slug":"snowy-saturday-morning-03-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Saturday Morning, 03\/12\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got out really early this morning in an effort to get as much birding in before the snow got too bad. I played a hunch and arrived at the Beacon Waterfront not too long after sunrise. I was rewarded with a beautiful first winter Iceland Gull perched on a tent on one of the docks. Not the prettiest perch, but I was still thrilled. I photographed the bird and hoped it would change perches, but alas it eventually took off and flew northeast without even a look back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Iceland Gull at the Beacon Waterfront, 03\/12\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I checked the Newburgh Waterfront afterwards; there wasn’t much going on, so I headed out to the black dirt just as it started snowing. Once in the black dirt, one of my first birds was a beautiful Rough-legged Hawk. It was snowing quite a bit, but the birds were active. I found many Horned Larks and spent most of the morning looking through them, searching for my main target of the morning: Lapland Longspur. I eventually did locate one; its plumage was pretty nice, but this far into March I was hoping for better. A small flock of Snow Geese flew overhead, and I was eventually able to relocate them. They blended in very well in a distant snowy field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Lapland Longspur taking off in the black dirt, 03\/12\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Camouflaged Snow Geese in the black dirt, 03\/12\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The snow was starting to accumulate pretty good, so I headed home. I passed through Lynch Avenue, where in a flooded field I had 4 Northern Pintails with a group of Mallards and Canada Geese. I missed the Wilson’s Snipe which had been reported there, mostly because a large plow was coming through and I needed to get out of the way and get my butt safely home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (30) – I added Red-shouldered Hawk and Ring-billed Gull since my last post. I will also mention that yesterday evening I had a white-winged gull fly over the house. It happened too quickly to get a photo; my impression was that the bird was likely an Iceland Gull, but I can’t be sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~LALO in the black dirt, 03\/12\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of many Horned Larks in the black dirt this morning, 03\/12\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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