{"id":1262,"date":"2013-04-21T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2013-04-21T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:04:36","slug":"long-island-4-19-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Long Island 4-19-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it is a busy time of year, both in real life and in my birding life. I have managed to get out birding, but it has been harder to find the time to write posts about it. On Friday I had some work on Long Island, so I decided to stay the night with my sister Meghan and her husband Tim. After my appointments I went up to Lloyd Harbor to do some birding. I stopped at West Neck Beach briefly and got some good looks at a flock of Brandt and took some photos of a cooperative Great Egret:<\/p>\n

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Great Egret at West Neck Beach in Lloyd Harbor NY, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I then continued up to Target Rock NWR, which was a nice spot and fun to explore but relatively few birds were present. I did get a nice look at a couple of Little Blue Herons (a life bird for me!) and several Snowy Egrets.<\/p>\n

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A juvenile Little Blue Heron at Target Rock NWR, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron at Target Rock NWR, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I only stayed at Target Rock for a short time; I was going to meet Meghan at Heckscher Park in Huntington. There had been a Tufted Duck at the pond there for quite some time. On my way back I stopped on the road where I had 10 Long-tailed Ducks (out too far for photos), a couple of Osprey and many Greater Yellowlegs.<\/p>\n

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An Osprey stretches its wings. Lloyd Harbor NY, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Osprey in flight, Lloyd Harbor NY, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Osprey on a wire with what I am pretty sure is a goldfish! Lloyd Harbor NY, 4-19-13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I kind of like this shot of three Greater Yellowlegs, which seemed to be everywhere in Lloyd Harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We did not locate the Tufted Duck at Heckscher Park, but we did have a good look at an Osprey looking for fish in the pond, many Double Crested Cormorants, and this leucistic Canada Goose that was causing a ruckus:<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, Tim and I played golf at Bergen Point Golf Course on the south shore of Long Island. I had my camera with me but I did not manage to get any photos of the many Osprey that where fishing in the ponds on the course. It was a short but sweet visit to Long Island with good birding too!<\/p>\n

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I guess it is a busy time of year, both in real life and in my birding life. I have managed to get out birding, but it has been harder to find the time to write posts about it. On Friday I had some work on Long Island, so I decided to stay the night … Continue reading “Long Island 4-19-13”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-km","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}