{"id":11831,"date":"2022-07-24T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:06:42","slug":"sunday-shots-07-24-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11831","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/24\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So it’s still feeling like the summer doldrums to me. That said, there was a little excitement in the local birding scene. On Wednesday, an ANHINGA was reported at Lake Tappan in Rockland County. I went for the bird after work on Thursday and was lucky enough to see it. The bird was distant and my photos were barely good enough for documentary purposes, but I enjoyed watching the bird in my scope, waiting it out until it finally left its perch and fished a little. It was excellent to see such a cool bird and to add it to my New York State list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Ken McDermott found a LITTLE BLUE HERON at Algonquin Park. It was reported on Saturday as well, but I tried to relocate it on Sunday and had no luck. Also, John Haas<\/a> had a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at the Newburgh Waterfront on Saturday. I tried for that bird this morning, but didn’t have any luck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I have this as a young Red-shouldered Hawk. Bullville Pond, 07\/24\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not very shockingly, shorebirds were my main targets this week. I visited Beaver Pond near Glenmere Lake on Friday and had Least, Solitary, and Spotted Sandpipers along with a good number of Killdeer. At the south pond of the Liberty Loop on Saturday morning, I had the same list of shorebird species (although Kyle Knapp had a Pectoral Sandpiper there on Sunday morning). The Camel Farm it totally dry and I didn’t even stop by. This morning I went to Bullville Pond, where there were a couple Solitaries and a couple Spotteds. Hopefully we will begin to get some more diversity soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Great Blue Heron at Bullville Pond, 07\/24\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer at the south pond of the Liberty Loop, 07\/23\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Solitary Sandpiper in the muck at the Liberty Loop, 07\/23\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of three young Cooper’s Hawks at Black Rock Forest last Sunday, 7\/17\/22. I took an 8.5 mile hike on Sunday but it wasn’t overly noteworthy in terms of birds so I didn’t post.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~That’s it for this week. Hopefully things will start to pick up soon.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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So it’s still feeling like the summer doldrums to me. That said, there was a little excitement in the local birding scene. On Wednesday, an ANHINGA was reported at Lake Tappan in Rockland County. I went for the bird after work on Thursday and was lucky enough to see it. The bird was distant and … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 07\/24\/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":[19,12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-34P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","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=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11839,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions\/11839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}