{"id":11892,"date":"2022-08-21T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2022-08-21T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:21:37","slug":"sunday-shots-08-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11892","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/21\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My focus this week has, unsurprisingly, been on shorebirds. The rest of the week paled in comparison to my amazing experience with the Red-necked Phalarope<\/a> on Monday evening, but there are some decent shorebirds around and it’s been good to get out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary has been decent for shorebirds. I birded from the Heritage trail twice this week and the place is loaded with Least Sandpipers and Killdeer. I also had a single Pectoral Sandpiper each visit. On Saturday afternoon I ventured out to Citgo Pond; a spot I haven’t been to in absolutely ages. The trail is totally overgrown, and getting to the pond was a bear. Once there, sweaty and bloody, I had a Semipalmated Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, Killdeer, and a single Semipalmated Plover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~An extremely accommodating Pied-billed Grebe at Morningside Park, 08\/2022.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was leaving the Heritage Trail one evening this week and I drove past the Goshen Park and Ride. I noticed that the water level was low, so I stopped and was happy to find good conditions and a decent number of shorebirds. I’ve stopped there several times this week and had the following birds: Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, and Killdeer. This place could get a good bird this fall, and parking is super easy and the viewing is not too bad either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Least Sandpiper at Morningside Park on Monday evening, 08\/15\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also ventured back to Sullivan County to Morningside Park for a second time this week on Saturday morning. Unfortunately a Merlin seems to have taken over the place, and the only shorebirds I found were a Killdeer and a single Solitary Sandpiper. There was also a couple of Bald Eagles present, including one young bird which was crying the entire time I was there. Otherwise, it was pleasant to be out on the calm beautiful water just after sunrise, and I also had a nice experience with a Pied-billed Grebe which didn’t seem to mind my presence very much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bald Eagle at Morningside Park 08\/20\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Solitary Sandpiper at Morningside Park, 08\/20\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk in the Black Dirt last weekend, 08\/14\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Rose-breasted Grosbeak at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/18\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lesser Yellowlegs at Morningside Park on Monday 08\/15\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Green Heron with prey at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/14\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My focus this week has, unsurprisingly, been on shorebirds. The rest of the week paled in comparison to my amazing experience with the Red-necked Phalarope on Monday evening, but there are some decent shorebirds around and it’s been good to get out. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary has been decent for shorebirds. I birded from … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/21\/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":[19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-35O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","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=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}