{"id":13177,"date":"2024-02-18T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13177"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:13:48","slug":"sunday-shots-02-18-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13177","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 02\/18\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it was a quiet weekend of birding. I made the rounds, but mostly came up with the usual suspects or less. Saturday morning I tried Reservoir 3 and the surrounding area, hoping to get some looks at Red Crossbills. I only had one flyover. Afterwards, I went to the Bashakill WMA to try for the released Northern Bobwhites that Scotty Baldinger found earlier in the week. John Haas was there as well, and he helped me find the birds quite quickly (thanks John). I’d never seen a Bobwhite before, so it was pretty cool – I was shocked at how small they are (just 8-11 inches, according to the Audubon App). Later, in the afternoon I went to the Newburgh Waterfront for gulls, but found only the 3 expected species (Ring-billed, Herring, and Great Black-backed). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Northern Bobwhite at the Bashakill, 02\/17\/24.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sunday morning I birded the black dirt without much excitement. I had a very large flock of blackbirds on Celery Avenue; I sorted through them for a long while but didn’t find anything out-of-the-ordinary. The flock was nearly all Common Grackles (approximately 95%), and nearly all the other birds were Red-winged Blackbirds (I did find one E. Starling and one Brown-headed Cowbird). Anyways, here are some shots from the weekend, I hope you enjoy them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Female Northern Bobwhite at the Bash, 02\/17\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-tailed Deer in the fresh snowfall at Reservoir 3 on Saturday morning, 02\/17\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-crowned Sparrow in the black dirt, 02\/18\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I don’t know why it is, but I never tire of these Horned Larks. This was shot in the Black Dirt Region, just after sunrise this morning, 02\/18\/24.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~NOBO at the Bashakill, 02\/17\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And one last shot of the male Northern Bobwhite, Bashakill, 02\/17\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it was a quiet weekend of birding. I made the rounds, but mostly came up with the usual suspects or less. Saturday morning I tried Reservoir 3 and the surrounding area, hoping to get some looks at Red Crossbills. I only had one flyover. Afterwards, I went to the Bashakill WMA to try for … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 02\/18\/24”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3qx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177","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=13177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}