{"id":12521,"date":"2023-06-11T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:12:45","slug":"sunday-shots-06-11-23-killdeer-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12521","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots 06\/11\/23: Killdeer of All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aside from my hike at Black Rock Forest,<\/a> I seemed to find Killdeer everywhere I birded this weekend. Many are working on their second clutch of the season. Meanwhile, the young Killdeer from the first clutch now have the appearance of clumsy teenagers; not quite adult size with a very pathetic looking tail, lol. Here’s a few shots from the weekend, with Killdeer ages ranging from eggs in the nest to the adult watching over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ulster County Killdeer chick, 06\/10\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Another puffball in Ulster County, 06\/10\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Adult Killdeer with eggs on the nest. I took this shot through a fence, using my car as a blind. Orange County 06\/11\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A young Killdeer in Orange County, 06\/11\/23. To me, at this age they look like awkward teenagers.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ulster Co. Killdeer chick, 06\/10\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Aside from my hike at Black Rock Forest, I seemed to find Killdeer everywhere I birded this weekend. Many are working on their second clutch of the season. Meanwhile, the young Killdeer from the first clutch now have the appearance of clumsy teenagers; not quite adult size with a very pathetic looking tail, lol. Here’s … Continue reading “Sunday Shots 06\/11\/23: Killdeer of All Ages”<\/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":[19,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-shorebirds","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3fX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","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=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}