{"id":12306,"date":"2023-02-25T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2023-02-25T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:10:00","slug":"snow-day-02-25-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12306","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day, 02\/25\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I headed to Sullivan County this snowy morning. I covered a decent amount of ground in the Parksville area, hoping for Evening Grosbeaks or maybe get lucky with Ruffed Grouse. Neither came to fruition, so I headed to the Neversink Reservoir, where I had a little more luck. I found 5 very confiding Snow Buntings feeding on the roadside. I enjoyed watching and photographing the birds; cursing the poor light as I did so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snow Bunting at Neversink Reservoir, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~SNBU at Neversink Reservoir, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to check Rondout Reservoir next, but the snow was falling at a decent clip and the road I wanted to take hadn’t been treated at all, so I bailed. I headed to the Bashakill instead. Haven Road was productive, with 8 species of waterfowl, 3 Bald Eagles, and a handful of Rusty Blackbirds. I was thwarted by the snow again, when I went to the Main Boat Launch to try for the multitude of waterfowl that has been reported there. No cars had entered the parking area and the snow looked just a little too substantial to risk it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A young Bald Eagle at the Bashakill today, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Back in Orange County in the early afternoon, a Barred Owl on a snowy day, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Sullivan County Snow Buntings on a snowy morning, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~SNBU 02\/25\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~SNBU at Neversink Reservoir, 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snow Bunting at Neversink Res. 02\/25\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed to Sullivan County this snowy morning. I covered a decent amount of ground in the Parksville area, hoping for Evening Grosbeaks or maybe get lucky with Ruffed Grouse. Neither came to fruition, so I headed to the Neversink Reservoir, where I had a little more luck. I found 5 very confiding Snow Buntings … Continue reading “Snow Day, 02\/25\/23”<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sullivancounty","category-bashakill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3cu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","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=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12316,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}