{"id":11793,"date":"2022-07-10T17:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11793"},"modified":"2022-07-12T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:02:29","slug":"black-rock-forest-07-10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11793","title":{"rendered":"Black Rock Forest, 07\/10\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I took advantage of the relatively cool weather this morning and took an 8 mile hike at Black Rock Forest<\/a>. It was a pleasant and relatively birdy hike, especially the first half of it, which provided a variety of habitats and most of the nearly 50 bird species I identified for the morning. Bird highlights included two Broad-winged Hawks (2 separate encounters), recently fledged Worm-eating Warblers, and recently fledged Prairie Warblers, neither of which I’d ever seen before. Non-avian highlights included a cooperative family of Beavers at Upper Reservoir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A female Scarlet Tanager at Black Rock Forest, 07\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve included my full list of birds species as well as a screenshot of my All Trails tracking information at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of 3 beavers at Black Rock Forest, 07\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A recently fledged Prairie Warbler at Black Rock Forest, 07\/10\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I did get out locally yesterday evening and on Thursday night as well. Both days I went to the Camel Farm to check on shorebird progress, and it’s not bad at all with a decent species list: Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, and Least Sandpiper. I also made it out to the Liberty Loop on Thursday and finally caught up with a Least Bittern in Orange County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Eastern Kingbirds at Liberty Marsh, 07\/07\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~There are loads of Wood Duck ducklings at the Liberty Marsh right now.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Willow Flycatcher at Liberty Marsh, 07\/07\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Eastern Kingbirds at Liberty Marsh, 07\/07\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I took advantage of the relatively cool weather this morning and took an 8 mile hike at Black Rock Forest. It was a pleasant and relatively birdy hike, especially the first half of it, which provided a variety of habitats and most of the nearly 50 bird species I identified for the morning. Bird highlights … Continue reading “Black Rock Forest, 07\/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_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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-34d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793","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=11793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}