{"id":13323,"date":"2024-04-21T16:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2024-04-21T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T20:11:27","slug":"sunday-shots-04-21-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13323","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 04\/21\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was definitely an exciting week of birding for me; you can read about yesterday’s LITTLE GULL here<\/a>, and Thursday’s Red-necked Grebe here<\/a>. Meanwhile, I’ve also enjoyed some less exciting but still good birding as well this week. On Tuesday evening I went to Wickham Lake – I enjoyed some decent looks at a Common Loon and tried my hand at photographing swallows in flight, which is always fun. This morning I checked a few lakes out before heading to the black dirt to try for Lapland Longspur in breeding plumage (no luck!). At Wickham Lake, I had another (very distant) Red-necked Grebe, and I got my first Spotted Sandpiper of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~iPhone shot of Beaver Pond first thing this morning, 04\/21\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Loon at Wickham Lake on 04\/16\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A Northern Rough-winged Swallow on the verge of grabbing a bite to eat. Wickham Lake, 04\/16\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Northern Rough-winged Swallow in flight at Wickham Lake, 04\/16\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My first Spotted Sandpiper of the year – at Wickham Lake on 04\/21\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~After being out all morning, I came home to find this Cooper’s Hawk on my neighbor’s hedge. Goshen, NY 04\/21\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~In spite of the low temps today, spring is here and things are changing. American Goldfinch in the black dirt, 04\/21\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wood Duck at Wickham Lake, 04\/16\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Common Loon at Wickham on 04\/16\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was definitely an exciting week of birding for me; you can read about yesterday’s LITTLE GULL here, and Thursday’s Red-necked Grebe here. Meanwhile, I’ve also enjoyed some less exciting but still good birding as well this week. On Tuesday evening I went to Wickham Lake – I enjoyed some decent looks at a Common … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 04\/21\/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-13323","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-3sT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323","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=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13336,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}