{"id":12157,"date":"2022-12-30T19:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:09:36","slug":"more-oc-gulls-12-30-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"More OC Gulls, 12\/30\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t work today, so I spent a nice long day of birding. It was an enjoyable day in spite of not really finding anything out of the ordinary. I birded the black dirt briefly in the early morning and then headed up to the Grasslands. I met up with Jodi Brodsky to try for the Loggerhead Shrike, but unfortunately, we had no luck. It was a good morning for raptors, however. Between the black dirt and the the Grasslands, I had a total of 8 raptor species: Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, and American Kestrel. Somehow I still don’t have Rough-legged Hawk this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ring-billed Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/30\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, Jodi and I joined Bruce Nott at the Newburgh Waterfront to look for gulls. We had one first winter Iceland Gull waaaay out in the river, but besides that, we just had the 3 expected species. Later in the afternoon the light got really nice, so I took a bunch of photos; I always enjoy photographing these light colored gulls in the late day sun with the dark river as a background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ring-billed Gull showing off it’s “bastard wings” or alula as they are called.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Herring Gull zipping by the boat launch, 12\/30\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ring-billed Gull, Newburgh Waterfront 12\/30\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I have this as a first winter Great Black-backed Gull. Newburgh 12\/30\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Ring-billed Gull, Newburgh NY 12\/30\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t work today, so I spent a nice long day of birding. It was an enjoyable day in spite of not really finding anything out of the ordinary. I birded the black dirt briefly in the early morning and then headed up to the Grasslands. I met up with Jodi Brodsky to try for … Continue reading “More OC Gulls, 12\/30\/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":[36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12157","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-3a5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","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=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}