{"id":12864,"date":"2023-10-29T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:28:22","slug":"plum-point-10-29-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12864","title":{"rendered":"Plum Point, 10\/29\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoyed an excellent morning\/early afternoon of birding at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangecountygov.com\/1478\/Kowawese-Unique-Area-at-Plum-Point\">Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point<\/a>. Birding bud Bruce Nott let me know he had some good birds on the Hudson River earlier in the morning, so I went over to check it out. Looking out onto the rainy and foggy river from the shelter of the park&#8217;s pavilion, it was a slow start, but over approximately three hours of birding I accumulated some good birds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At least 15 Common Loons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A fly-by of nearly 20 Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(5) Long-tailed Ducks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A GREAT CORMORANT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Skein of approximately 175 Brant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A fly-by  of (14) Northern Pintails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A flock Scaup (species) see photo below<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And the usuals: Ring-billed and Herring Gulls, (3) Bald Eagles, Double-crested Cormorants, and American Black Ducks. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-GRCO.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Great Cormorant at Plum Point, 10\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-BAEA.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Bald Eagle in flight over the Hudson River, Plum Point, 10\/29\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102923-SCAUP-SP-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Scaup species, Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point, 10\/29\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed an excellent morning\/early afternoon of birding at Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point. Birding bud Bruce Nott let me know he had some good birds on the Hudson River earlier in the morning, so I went over to check it out. Looking out onto the rainy and foggy river from the shelter of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plum Point, 10\/29\/23&#8221;<\/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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3lu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864","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=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12869,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions\/12869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}