{"id":12635,"date":"2023-08-06T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2023-08-06T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:33:09","slug":"the-berkshires-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12635","title":{"rendered":"The Berkshires, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tricia and I spent the weekend up in The Berkshires to celebrate our anniversary. While birding was not the focus of the weekend, I did get out early both days. I chose my locations with a single target species, the elusive Ruffed Grouse. I’ll kill the suspense now and say I did not have any success with my target. But, I birded a couple of interesting spots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday I went to Savoy Mountain State Forest<\/a>, where I hiked just under 4 miles. I had mostly the usuals, but with some interesting highlights: I got excellent looks (but no photos) of a Canada Warbler, there was also a very accommodating Alder Flycatcher (a species I don’t recall ever photographing previously), and I also had a Red Crossbill fly overhead, calling as it went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Alder Flycatcher at Savoy Mountain State Forest, 08\/05\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I followed up on an eBird report of a Ruffed Grouse at Bridges Pond i<\/a>n Williamtown, MA. The birding was uneventful, but the spot was interesting only because most of the trail ran right alongside railroad tracks, so I took the opportunity to be a little creative with my photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Mourning Dove on the railroad tracks at Bridges Pond, Williamstown MA, 08\/06\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Chipmunk on a stack of railroad ties at Bridges Pond, 08\/06\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Yellowthroat fledgling, Savoy Mountain State Forest, 08\/05\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tricia and I spent the weekend up in The Berkshires to celebrate our anniversary. While birding was not the focus of the weekend, I did get out early both days. I chose my locations with a single target species, the elusive Ruffed Grouse. I’ll kill the suspense now and say I did not have any … Continue reading “The Berkshires, 2023”<\/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":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3hN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635","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=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12643,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/12643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}