{"id":11617,"date":"2022-04-10T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T19:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2022-04-10T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T19:37:55","slug":"sunday-shots-04-10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11617","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 04\/10\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I covered a lot of ground in Orange County this weekend; I went to the Newburgh Waterfront three times, I birded the Hudson River south of Newburgh, drove through Harriman State Park checking the lakes for waterfowl, and did the same at Sterling Forest SP. I hit my “local” lakes both days (Wickham, Greenwood, Walton, and Round). And first thing this morning I spent some time in the black dirt, wishing the heavy puddling would lead me to an interesting bird; it did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Male Hooded Merganser at Silver Mine Lake, 04\/09\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The results were mixed. I had a lot of strike outs, but also some decent birds. I’ve decided to rank my top birds of the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Iceland Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 04\/10\/22. I guess I never get tired of this bird; it was a pleasant surprise to find one loafing on the floating docks this morning. <\/li>
  2. Bonaparte’s Gull at Round Lake, 04\/09\/22. I watched this bird as it intermittently floated and fed in a steady rain on Saturday afternoon. <\/li>
  3. Long-tailed Ducks, Plum Point 04\/09\/22. I was happy to see these two birds; unfortunately they were quite distant, so the looks weren’t great, and no pics. <\/li>
  4. Common Loons, 2 at Greenwood Lake and 3 at Round Lake on Saturday, and 1 at Wickham and Round Lakes on Sunday.<\/li>
  5. Scaup, Lesser and Greater. I had the Lessers at Plum point on 04\/09\/22 and the Greaters at Round Lake on 4\/10\/22,<\/li>
  6. Notable Mention: A female Red-breasted Merganser at Greenwood Lake, 04\/10\/22.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    ~Iceland Gull loafing on the floating docks at the Newburgh Waterfront, 04\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Yard Birds 2022: (34) – On Friday evening I added 2 birds flying over, American Kestrel and Tree Swallow. The kestrel was the first falcon I can remember seeing from my yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    ~Eastern Meadowlark giving me the usual distant look in the black dirt, 04\/10\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    ~Female Hooded Merganser at Silver Mine Lake, 04\/09\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    ~Fish Crow at the Newburgh Waterfront, 04\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I covered a lot of ground in Orange County this weekend; I went to the Newburgh Waterfront three times, I birded the Hudson River south of Newburgh, drove through Harriman State Park checking the lakes for waterfowl, and did the same at Sterling Forest SP. I hit my “local” lakes both days (Wickham, Greenwood, Walton, … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 04\/10\/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":[36,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-31n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","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=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}