{"id":11738,"date":"2022-05-30T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:56:50","slug":"orange-county-neotropic-cormorant-05-30-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11738","title":{"rendered":"Orange County NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, 05\/30\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I spent my birding time over the past couple of days trying to catch up with the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT that Bruce Nott and Ken McDermott found at the Newburgh Rowing Club on Saturday evening. I was in Newburgh twice yesterday and had some rotten luck, missing the bird by less than 10 minutes. Today was a different story and I finally connected with the bird thanks to two birders up from the city (Heydi & Ryan maybe? Sorry I’m so bad with names). I connected with them when they first arrived, and not to long after that, they contacted me to let me know they had found the bird by the Newburgh Ferry. The bird was cooperative until birding bud Rob Stone arrived and got it, but shortly after that it was flushed by a pair of jet skis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Wow! NEOTROPIC CORMORANT on the Hudson River near the Newburgh Ferry 05\/30\/22. From what I understand, this is only the 6th NECO record in NYS .~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The NECO wasn’t the only excitement I had this week. I was focusing on breaking 200 birds in Sullivan this week. On Thursday I joined Karen Miller out at Haven Road and we heard a solitary Eastern Whip-poor-will (#199) calling. On Saturday I went to the Neversink Reservoir and got Bobolink (200) and Savannah Sparrow (201). Afterwards, I birded Hurleyville Swamp and was able to clearly hear an Alder Flycatcher (202) calling away. I was going to head home at that point, having cleaned up pretty good, but John Haas contacted me to let me know he had a Mourning Warbler calling near Cooley Bog. I ran for that bird, and although I didn’t ever lay eyes on it, I heard it well. The Mourning Warbler bumped my Sullivan County total to 203 and it was also a life bird for me (4 in a week! Craziness!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A wet and bedraggled looking Bobolink was my 200th bird in Sullivan County. Neversink Reservoir, 05\/28\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: (49) For all the good luck I had this week, it didn’t come home with me; I didn’t add any new birds to my yard list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bald Eagle at the Newburgh Rowing Club, 05\/29\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Now this was crazy. When I arrived at the Newburgh Rowing Club this morning, Matt Klein was there. He immediately got me on this white-tailed deer swimming across the river! The deer must have realized it was longer than it thought, and just under halfway across it turned back and made it back to Orange County unscathed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cuteness. Killdeer and chick at Hurleyville Swamp 05\/28\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Yellow Warbler at Hurleyville Swamp, 05\/28\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Osprey on the Hudson River, 05\/29\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent my birding time over the past couple of days trying to catch up with the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT that Bruce Nott and Ken McDermott found at the Newburgh Rowing Club on Saturday evening. I was in Newburgh twice yesterday and had some rotten luck, missing the bird by less than 10 minutes. Today was … Continue reading “Orange County NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, 05\/30\/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":[6,19,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-33k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","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=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11746,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions\/11746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}