{"id":11770,"date":"2022-06-19T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2022-06-19T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T18:28:38","slug":"sunday-shots-06-19-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11770","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 06\/19\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went out late Saturday morning with Upland Sandpiper on my mind. I spent some time at the Orange County Airport, and then headed to Ulster County and tried Blue Chip Farm and the Grasslands. While I had no luck with Uppies (it was always a long shot), I did spend some time with a Killdeer family at the airport, as well as a very cooperative Eastern Meadowlark at the Grasslands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of four Killdeer chicks present at the Orange County Airport, 06\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Meadowlark in flight with prey, Grasslands 06\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I wanted to take a hike, so I went to Black Rock Forest and hiked out past Jupiter’s Boulder, which I chose in hopes of seeing or hearing a Ruffed Grouse (another long shot!). No luck with the grouse, but it was a fairly productive hike with over 40 species observed. The only sort of unusual siting was a young Hooded Merganser; I was happy to see and record this bird. As a bonus, it was close enough for decent photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Young Hooded Merganser at Black Rock Forest, 06\/19\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yard Birds 2022: Still stuck at (49); I didn’t add any new birds this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red-winged Blackbird at Blue Chip Farms, 06\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Meadowlark at the Grasslands, 06\/18\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer chick at Orange County Airport, 06\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Bluebird at Black Rock Forest, 06\/19\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more of the Eastern Meadowlark in flight at the Grasslands, 06\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went out late Saturday morning with Upland Sandpiper on my mind. I spent some time at the Orange County Airport, and then headed to Ulster County and tried Blue Chip Farm and the Grasslands. While I had no luck with Uppies (it was always a long shot), I did spend some time with a … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 06\/19\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-33Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","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=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11779,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}