{"id":11601,"date":"2022-03-27T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2022-03-27T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:00:06","slug":"black-rock-forest-03-27-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11601","title":{"rendered":"Black Rock Forest, 03\/27\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, my good luck continued for another day. This morning I headed to Black Rock Forest<\/a> to try for the Red Crossbills that have been reported there recently. I enjoyed the 3 mile hike to Tamarack Pond, in spite of the relatively cold and windy conditions. I didn’t have many birds until I got to the area of the pond, where there were plenty of birds, some of them really good, including a couple of Fox Sparrows, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a Brown Creeper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of the many Dark-eyed Juncos at Black Rock Forest, near Tamarack Pond, 03\/27\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But, it took over two hours of looking and listening and wandering the area before finding my target birds. I heard a call that I did not immediately recognize, as I made my way towards the call, two birds popped up out of an evergreen and landed on a leafless tree. I was able to snap some shots before the birds took off; I got enough to at least document:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red Crossbill at Black Rock Forest, 03\/27\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The hike back to the car was nearly bird-free, but I was feeling pretty good about things and didn’t mind at all. I made a quick stop at the Newburgh Waterfront afterwards, but it seemed quiet there and I had only the 3 expected species of gull present (Ring-billed, Herring, and Great Black-backed). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (33) – no new birds since my last post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~This was a nice surprise, one of 2 Fox Sparrows at Black Rock Forest, 03\/27\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, my good luck continued for another day. This morning I headed to Black Rock Forest to try for the Red Crossbills that have been reported there recently. I enjoyed the 3 mile hike to Tamarack Pond, in spite of the relatively cold and windy conditions. I didn’t have many birds until I got to … Continue reading “Black Rock Forest, 03\/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_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":[6,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-317","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","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=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11605,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}