{"id":11570,"date":"2022-03-13T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2022-03-13T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:28:38","slug":"sunday-shots-03-13-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11570","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 03\/13\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I guess winter isn’t over yet. After yesterday’s messy snow, we woke up to temperatures in the high teens this morning. I’m of two minds about it – one part of me is enjoying these last days of winter birding and the other is ready for some warm weather and new birds. Truth be told, many of my favorites are only here in the winter, so I’ve really enjoyed and tried to relish this winter, even when it was super cold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Pipit high-stepping through the black dirt, 03\/13\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last night I went back to the Hudson River, hoping to get a look at the adult Glaucous Gull which had been reported on Friday. No luck with that bird; my best bird was a distant 1st winter Iceland Gull. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I was pleasantly surprised by this one single Snow Bunting today in the black dirt, 03\/13\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I headed back out to the black dirt. A Ross’s and a Greater White-fronted Goose were reported yesterday evening; both of those birds were on my mind, but no luck there. I did catch up with several Lapland Longspurs – a couple had some great looking plumage, but never came close enough for photos. An American Pipit landed close to me several times, giving me some excellent photo ops. I’d put on my 1.4x extender since the longspurs were keeping their distance; it’s been ages since I’ve used it and I was pretty happy with the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we know it, spring will finally have sprung, so I’m happy to enjoy winter’s last hurrah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Yard bird alert! Red-shouldered Hawk making a racket in the backyard while I was working on 03\/07\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It was great to see some Lapland Longspurs in some nice plumage this weekend. LALO in the black dirt 03\/13\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A pair of Wood Ducks in the Wallkill River, 03\/13\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the American Pipit in the black dirt, 03\/13\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Savannah Sparrow in the snow, 03\/13\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess winter isn’t over yet. After yesterday’s messy snow, we woke up to temperatures in the high teens this morning. I’m of two minds about it – one part of me is enjoying these last days of winter birding and the other is ready for some warm weather and new birds. Truth be told, … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 03\/13\/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-11570","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-30C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570","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=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}