{"id":12836,"date":"2023-10-22T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2023-10-22T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T22:33:35","slug":"sunday-shots-10-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12836","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 10\/22\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was an interesting weekend in local birding. On Friday afternoon, Linda Scrima located a NORTHERN WHEATEAR in the black dirt. On Saturday morning, it was raining (as usual this fall), so I was able to spend some time searching for the bird. Unfortunately I didn’t have any luck, but I enjoyed another rainy morning in the black dirt, seeing the absolutely massive numbers of American Pipits, and I also found an unlikely sparrow for this time of year – a late Grasshopper Sparrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Grasshopper Sparrow in the Black Dirt Region, 10\/21\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also enjoyed a nice look a Merlin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Merlin perched in the wind and rain. Black dirt, 10\/21\/23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, when the rain stopped, I managed to squeeze in two and a half hours at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I had 15 migrating raptors, including another Merlin and a Peregrine Falcon. I’ve included my full report at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning, I found a Long-billed Dowitcher at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Marsh. This is a species which we don’t see all that regularly in Orange County; I believe that today was my just 4th siting in the 13 years I’ve birded OC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Long-billed Dowitcher at Liberty Marsh, 10\/22\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Love these dudes. American Pipit in the black dirt in the rain, 10\/21\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It’s always good to see our buddy the Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk in Warwick, NY 10\/21\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was an interesting weekend in local birding. On Friday afternoon, Linda Scrima located a NORTHERN WHEATEAR in the black dirt. On Saturday morning, it was raining (as usual this fall), so I was able to spend some time searching for the bird. Unfortunately I didn’t have any luck, but I enjoyed another rainy morning … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 10\/22\/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":[6,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3l2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","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=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}