{"id":11781,"date":"2022-06-26T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2022-06-26T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T18:50:51","slug":"beautiful-black-bear-06-26-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11781","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Black Bear, 06\/26\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning I hiked the Sterling Ridge Trail at <a href=\"https:\/\/parks.ny.gov\/parks\/sterlingforest\/details.aspx\">Sterling Forest State Park<\/a>. I tallied just under 50 species of birds; all of them were expected species (the usuals). I did have a little bit of excitement, however, with two separate Black Bear sitings. One bear was up on a hillside, about 150 yards off the trail, and took absolutely no notice of me. The other was just on the other side of a small pond. That bear was definitely aware of my presence; it most likely heard the camera shutter. It had been a couple years since I&#8217;d seen a bear, so today was a treat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/062622-BLBE-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~Black Bear at Sterling Forest State Park, 06\/26\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I hiked the Sterling Ridge Trail at Sterling Forest State Park. I tallied just under 50 species of birds; all of them were expected species (the usuals). I did have a little bit of excitement, however, with two separate Black Bear sitings. One bear was up on a hillside, about 150 yards off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beautiful Black Bear, 06\/26\/22&#8221;<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6,19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-sterlforest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-341","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","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=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}