{"id":12150,"date":"2022-12-26T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2022-12-26T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:34:57","slug":"christmas-gulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12150","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gulling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christmas Eve morning Kyle Knapp found a single Bonaparte’s Gull on Wickham Lake. I was birding in the black dirt, so I ran over to try for the bird. The bird was still present and was obliging enough to do a relatively close fly-by. There was a good number of gulls on the lake, maybe 3 dozen or so. Nearly a dozen were Herring Gulls, which is a lot for that location. There rest were the expected Ring-billed Gulls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bonaparte’s Gull at Wickham Lake, Christmas Eve 2022.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today I arrived back in Orange County after spending the holidays on Long Island with my family. I went to Newburgh Waterfront – it was a beautiful night with great light and it wasn’t nearly as cold as it’s been recently. It was mostly the usual 3 species (Herring, Great Black-backed, and Ring-billed), but I also located a single Young Iceland Gull; always a favorite. I enjoyed a pleasant evening of gulling and it was disappointing when the sun started setting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Iceland Gull in flight over the Hudson River at Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/26\/22. Look at that beautiful wing!~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Herring Gull coming right at me; Newburgh Waterfront 12\/26\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~All for one scrap of bread! Gull melee at the Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/26\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Herring Gull and Canada Goose at the Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/26\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Eve morning Kyle Knapp found a single Bonaparte’s Gull on Wickham Lake. I was birding in the black dirt, so I ran over to try for the bird. The bird was still present and was obliging enough to do a relatively close fly-by. There was a good number of gulls on the lake, maybe … Continue reading “Christmas Gulling”<\/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":[36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-39Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","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=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12156,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/12156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}