{"id":12134,"date":"2022-12-11T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12134"},"modified":"2022-12-11T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:18:18","slug":"wintery-birding-12-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12134","title":{"rendered":"Wintery Birding, 12\/11\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know winter doesn&#8217;t technically start for another 10 days, but today certainly had a wintery feel to it. What a difference a day makes &#8211; yesterday was crisp and full of light but today was dark, gray, and snowy. Interestingly, it felt just as refreshing to be out both days &#8211; there is something I really enjoy about cold weather birding. I tried for the<a href=\"https:\/\/bashakillbirder.wordpress.com\/#!\/cover\"> Hammond&#8217;s Flycatcher<\/a> again this morning for nearly 3 hours before heading to the black dirt, where it was quite birdy. I didn&#8217;t find anything as exciting as<a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12127\"> yesterday<\/a>, but still I had some really good winter birds, including: Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspurs, American Tree Sparrows, a Merlin, and a small flock of Snow Geese. Here is a collection of what I would consider typical winter birding images from the area.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-CANG-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~A couple of Canada Geese in the snow at the Bashakill, 12\/11\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-RTHA-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Red-tailed Hawk perched on some farm equipment in the black dirt, 12\/11\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-SNGO-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Snow Geese in the black dirt, 12\/11\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-MERL.jpg 2008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Merlin in the black dirt, 12\/11\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-HOLA.jpg 1566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Horned Lark in the black dirt, 12\/11\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121122-LALO-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~There are actually 2 Lapland Longspurs in this photo -its head is out of focus and barely visible in the foreground. Black dirt 12\/11\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know winter doesn&#8217;t technically start for another 10 days, but today certainly had a wintery feel to it. What a difference a day makes &#8211; yesterday was crisp and full of light but today was dark, gray, and snowy. Interestingly, it felt just as refreshing to be out both days &#8211; there is something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wintery Birding, 12\/11\/22&#8221;<\/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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-39I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134","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=12134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12141,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134\/revisions\/12141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}