{"id":12060,"date":"2022-11-06T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2022-11-06T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:18:19","slug":"sunday-shots-11-06-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12060","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/06\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To be honest, this week was a little bit of a dud for me as far as birding goes. There was one clear highlight – after seeing reports from elsewhere in the region, on Wednesday evening I went to Wickham Lake hoping for and finding BLACK SCOTERS. Seven to be exact. It was remarkable to me how quickly it was getting dark, so I was happy to quickly document them before photos wouldn’t be an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Scoters on Wickham Lake on 11\/02\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday I was the counter at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. It was a terrible week for the watch – I think with the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been having, raptors are just not moving. It was no different for me on Saturday – I woke up to temperatures in the low 60’s (in early November!), and it only got warmer. I recorded only 3 species of migrants for the day – (4) adult Bald Eagles and a handful each of Turkey and Black Vultures. As usual, my report is at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~White-crowned Sparrow at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 11\/06\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the day on Saturday, and on Sunday, I tried for more waterfowl. Wickham Lake has been a good spot, as has been Liberty Marsh. Most waterfowl has been the usual suspects, but I was happy to add American Coot to my Orange County 2022 list. And today at Wickham I had 4 scaup, way out there. I suspect Lesser Scaup, but they were too far to be sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Mute Swans coming in for a landing at Wickham Lake, 11\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Double-crested Cormorant cruising by at Wickham Lake, 11\/06\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more White-crowned Sparrow shot, Liberty Loop 11\/06\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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To be honest, this week was a little bit of a dud for me as far as birding goes. There was one clear highlight – after seeing reports from elsewhere in the region, on Wednesday evening I went to Wickham Lake hoping for and finding BLACK SCOTERS. Seven to be exact. It was remarkable to … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/06\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12060","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-38w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","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=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12068,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}