{"id":12932,"date":"2023-12-09T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:18:14","slug":"excellent-day-in-oc-12-09-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12932","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Day in OC, 12\/09\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was an unexpectedly good day of birding for me. My first stop was Reservoir #3<\/a> in Port Jervis. I have birded this location a lot over the years, and I think as far as fall\/winter birding is concerned, today was the most productive day I’ve ever had out there. As soon as I got out of the car, a Pine Siskin flew over calling. Not long after that, I heard and saw my target bird of the morning: a small group of RED CROSSBILLS flew over. I recorded the call on the Merlin app, and I was able to get some documentary, mostly-silhouetted photos. I took a modest hike and I tallied 20 species; other highlights included a Red-breasted Nuthatch, several Brown Creepers, and three Golden-crowned Kinglets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bald Eagle in the black dirt, 12\/09\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, I made a short visit to the black dirt. I tracked down a flock of Horned Larks with 2 Snow Buntings and 1 Lapland Longspur among them. I also enjoyed a nice photo op with a Bald Eagle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Iceland Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/09\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the evening, I joined Bruce Nott at the Newburgh Waterfront. Bruce had informed me earlier in the week that he had a couple of ICELAND GULLS, so I was excited to get out and get the gulling season started. We were able to locate one first winter Iceland Gull among approximately 400 gulls of the expected species (Herring, Great Black-backed, and Ring-billed) on the river. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red Crossbill in flight at Reservoir #3, 12\/09\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Brown Creeper at Res 3, 12\/09\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was an unexpectedly good day of birding for me. My first stop was Reservoir #3 in Port Jervis. I have birded this location a lot over the years, and I think as far as fall\/winter birding is concerned, today was the most productive day I’ve ever had out there. As soon as I got … Continue reading “Excellent Day in OC, 12\/09\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3mA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","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=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}