{"id":12345,"date":"2023-03-12T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2023-03-12T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:33:07","slug":"sunday-shots-03-12-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12345","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 03\/12\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After photographing Northern Harriers at the grasslands on Saturday morning<\/a>, the rest of the weekend was pretty much the usuals. I did see my first Tree Swallows of the year – at two locations – Wisner Avenue on Sunday and the grasslands on Saturday. There are plenty of ducks around, but I didn’t find anything new for the year. I visited the Hudson River and several lakes over the 2 days: Wickham, Greenwood, Walton, Round, Orange, and Brown’s Pond. I also spent time on both Saturday and Sunday looking through flocks of Horned Larks hoping for Lapland Longspurs. I feel like I’m normally pretty lucky when it comes to finding LALOs, but this weekend it was not in the cards. It’s too bad too, because it’s nearly mid March, and I imagine they might be in some impressive plumage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~For a bird that we see and hear so often, I don’t often get good opportunities to photograph Northern Cardinals. This one was near the feeder station at the Grasslands, 03\/11\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Always a good subject in my opinion, Northern Mockingbird at Brown’s Pond 03\/11\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Bluebird at Wickham Lake this morning, 03\/12\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Merganser at Wickham Lake, 03\/12\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Northern Harrier shot from yesterday morning at the grasslands, 03\/11\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After photographing Northern Harriers at the grasslands on Saturday morning, the rest of the weekend was pretty much the usuals. I did see my first Tree Swallows of the year – at two locations – Wisner Avenue on Sunday and the grasslands on Saturday. There are plenty of ducks around, but I didn’t find anything … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 03\/12\/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_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":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3d7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","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=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}