{"id":13295,"date":"2024-04-14T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13295"},"modified":"2024-04-14T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T20:49:58","slug":"a-good-weekend-04-14-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13295","title":{"rendered":"A Good Weekend, 04\/14\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t do a post last weekend because I did not have any noteworthy sightings nor any photos that I felt justified a post. This weekend it’s a different story. I enjoyed two mornings of really good birding where I added several new birds to my Orange County year list. I also finally caught up with a couple of birds which had been eluding me – on Saturday morning, I finally got a Great Cormorant for the county (I’d seen one across the river in Dutchess County earlier in the year). Then on Sunday morning, thanks to birding bud Bruce Nott, I finally saw the Eurasian Green-winged Teal which has been in the area for some time. It was in the big pond at the Camel Farm, which made finding it much easier than scanning through hundreds of Green-winged Teals at Winding Waters Trail, as I did a couple of weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I kind of like this photo because it’s cool to see the size comparison of the Great versus the much smaller Double-crested Cormorant. Newburgh Waterfront, 04\/13\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And things are starting to happen. Including the couple of evenings I got out earlier this week, I added 12 species to my OC year list: <\/p>\n\n\n\n