{"id":12389,"date":"2023-04-02T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:40:14","slug":"sunday-shots-04-02-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12389","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 04\/02\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I focused my birding time mostly on waterfowl again this weekend. For the most part it was the same birds we’ve been seeing, but I was able to add (3) new species to my Orange County year list. On Saturday birding bud Bruce Nott let me know he had a Common Loon on Orange Lake (I would find another one at Glenmere Lake on Sunday). Then, I had my first Blue-winged Teal of the year this morning at Beaver Pond in Florida, NY. And finally, I ran to the mouth of the Quassaick Creek where it meets the Hudson River, to catch up with a GREAT CORMORANT located by Bruce earlier in the morning. This was definitely the bird of the weekend (even if my photos weren’t very good). It’s been a number of years since I’ve had that bird in Orange County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~GREAT CORMORANT on the Hudson River near Newburgh, NY 04\/02\/23.!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~By contrast, here’s a nice close-up of a Double-crested Cormorant at Round Lake, 04\/02\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Grebe at Orange Lake, 04\/01\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A Red-winged Blackbird singing in the rain at Gardnertown Road, 04\/01\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I have these as Lesser Scaup; Wickham Lake 04\/02\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~On Thursday evening, I ran to the Newburgh Waterfront hoping to catch up with the Bonaparte’s Gulls that had been reported the day before. I got lucky and found (6) of them. This photo has (3) species of gull in it – mostly Herring Gulls, the (6) Bonies, and a couple of Ring-billed Gulls. Newburgh Waterfront, 03\/30\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I focused my birding time mostly on waterfowl again this weekend. For the most part it was the same birds we’ve been seeing, but I was able to add (3) new species to my Orange County year list. On Saturday birding bud Bruce Nott let me know he had a Common Loon on Orange Lake … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 04\/02\/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":[6,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3dP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389","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=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12398,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions\/12398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}