{"id":12589,"date":"2023-07-16T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:16:21","slug":"sunday-shots-07-16-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12589","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/16\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With even more rain falling overnight and into the morning, I headed back out to the black dirt to try for shorebirds again. I was really feeling like there might be an exciting bird out there today, but, alas, it wasn’t to be. I did enjoy observing the same 5 shorebird species (Killdeer, Least Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, and Lesser Yellowlegs), and I had some decent photo ops with a small flock of Least Sandpipers that flew in and landed not too far from my car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Least Sandpiper in the black dirt, 07\/16\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in morning I went to the Newburgh Waterfront to see if anything good was going on there, or if I could at least finally catch up with the Neotropic Cormorant. Unfortunately it was mostly uneventful, but I did manage to see my first Orange County Great Egret of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A young Tree Swallow flying over the puddles in the black dirt, 07\/15\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Marsh Wren at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Marsh, 07\/15\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A Least Sandpiper reflects on things in the black dirt, 07\/16\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I was enjoying the swallows that were feeding on insects above the puddles in the black dirt. Here’s a young Barn Swallow swooping in, 07\/15\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A young raccoon peers from behind its parent. Purgatory Road, 07\/16\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Great Egret fly-by at the Newburgh Waterfront, 07\/16\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With even more rain falling overnight and into the morning, I headed back out to the black dirt to try for shorebirds again. I was really feeling like there might be an exciting bird out there today, but, alas, it wasn’t to be. I did enjoy observing the same 5 shorebird species (Killdeer, Least Sandpiper, … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 07\/16\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3h3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","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=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12598,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/12598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}