{"id":12619,"date":"2023-07-30T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2023-07-30T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T20:29:41","slug":"sunday-shots-07-30-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12619","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/30\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had an enjoyable weekend of birding, but Saturday was particularly productive. We had a storm pass through early in the morning which left some nice puddling in the black dirt. I had loads of Killdeer, several Least Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpipers, a single Greater Yellowlegs, and my personal highlight of the morning: (4) Pectoral Sandpipers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early afternoon I went to Piermont Pier to follow up on some recent eBird reports. My target birds from the reports included Laughing Gull, Semipalmated Plovers, and Red-breasted Merganser. Well, I dipped on all three, lol. BUT, the birding was still really good. I enjoyed seeing (4) Caspian Terns as well as great looks at nearly a dozen Semipalmated Sandpipers. It was hot as blazes on the pier, but the birding was still very enjoyable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~One of nearly a dozen Semipalmated Sanpipers at Piermont Pier, 07\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Pectoral Sandpiper alongside a Killdeer in the black dirt, 07\/29\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk on a bale of hay in the black dirt, 07\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~The elusive turtle action photo, inclusive of hovering mosquitos. I helped assure that this Box Turtle safely crossed the road – appropriately on Turtle Bay Road in the black dirt.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A singing Savannah Sparrow in the black dirt, 07\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I found a pair of presumed sibling fawns on Turtle Bay Road on Saturday morning. So cute!~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And the sibling.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Mourning Dove in the black dirt, 07\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~European Starling in the black dirt, 07\/30\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is likely the last of our House Wren photos – the chicks fledged on Saturday morning and they have been scarce since then. HOWR in our yard, 07\/27\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Great Blue Heron in Montgomery, 07\/30\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an enjoyable weekend of birding, but Saturday was particularly productive. We had a storm pass through early in the morning which left some nice puddling in the black dirt. I had loads of Killdeer, several Least Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpipers, a single Greater Yellowlegs, and my personal highlight of the morning: (4) Pectoral Sandpipers. … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 07\/30\/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":[6,19,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rockland-county","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3hx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","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=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}