{"id":12008,"date":"2022-10-09T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2022-10-09T19:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:29:15","slug":"sunday-shots-10-09-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12008","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots 10\/09\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was away this weekend and so the only birding I fit in was Sunday afternoon into the early evening. I checked the black dirt, hoping for shorebirds but no luck. I did come across a flock of American Pipits, always a favorite of mine, feeding on an old pumpkin field. Afterwards, I walked Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters trail. It was a pleasant and birdy walk, with mostly the usuals. My best moment was when a Merlin rocketed down the trail, about head high, right towards me, only veering off at the last second. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Pipit in the black dirt, 10\/09\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Swamp Sparrow in nice light at Winding Waters, 10\/09\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Pipit with pumpkins in the black dirt, 10\/09\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Hairy Woodpecker at Winding Waters Trail, 10\/09\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was away this weekend and so the only birding I fit in was Sunday afternoon into the early evening. I checked the black dirt, hoping for shorebirds but no luck. I did come across a flock of American Pipits, always a favorite of mine, feeding on an old pumpkin field. Afterwards, I walked Wallkill … Continue reading “Sunday Shots 10\/09\/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":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-37G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008","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=12008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}