{"id":12457,"date":"2023-05-07T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2023-05-07T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T19:39:37","slug":"sunday-shots-shorebirds-and-babies-05-07-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, Shorebirds and Babies, 05\/07\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s the time of year when A LOT is happening. Birds are on the move and seemingly everywhere. While I think most birders were out looking for wood warblers, I kind of did my own thing since warblers are not high priority for me. That said, I added 27 species to my Orange County year list in the past couple of days. I added over half of those birds on a 7.5 mile hike at Black Rock Forest on Saturday morning. It was a birdy hike with 44 species observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Killdeer chick in the Black Dirt Region, 05\/07\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday afternoon I went over to Walkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail. Birding bud Kyle Knapp let me know that he’d had shorebirds there in the flooded fields. I was able to relocate the Dunlin that he’d had there earlier, as well as: Killdeer (2), Least Sandpipers (9), Greater Yellowlegs (many), Lesser Yellowlegs (even more), and Solitary Sandpipers (15+). The birds were distant, and the heat shimmer was terrible, which made for poor viewing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Lesser Yellowlegs at Winding Waters Trail, 05\/07\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went back to Winding Waters this morning to follow up on the Black-bellied Plover that Jeanne Cimorelli located after I’d left on Saturday. As luck would have it, I was joined by fellow hawk watcher and all around good guy, Tom Millard. We scanned the shorebirds from many locations on the trail and totaled 9 species of shorebirds (we added Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover and Spotted Sandpiper to the birds listed above). The number of shorebirds at that location right now is really something – it’s hard to put a number on it, but I’m guesstimating over 200 shorebirds present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Earlier in the week, I went for the red fox kits again. Cuteness overload. Orange County 05\/01\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Solitary Sandpiper at Winding Waters Trail, 05\/07\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~For some reason, it seems hard to get a catchlight on the eye of a young Killdeer. I took many photos of these chicks, and the top photo of this post was the only one with a catchlight. Killdeer chick in the black dirt, 05\/07\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lesser Yellowlegs with a worm for a snack. Winding Waters, 05\/07\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This little dude was having a blast playing with this stick….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~….but she\/he tired quickly and was fast asleep when I left. Orange County red fox 05\/01\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Bald Eagle flyover at Winding Waters Trail, 05\/07\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Goldfinch in the black dirt, 05\/07\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the time of year when A LOT is happening. Birds are on the move and seemingly everywhere. While I think most birders were out looking for wood warblers, I kind of did my own thing since warblers are not high priority for me. That said, I added 27 species to my Orange County year … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, Shorebirds and Babies, 05\/07\/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":[6,34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-shorebirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3eV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","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=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12470,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/12470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}