{"id":13488,"date":"2024-06-08T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2024-06-08T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:56:44","slug":"black-rock-forest-06-08-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13488","title":{"rendered":"Black Rock Forest, 06\/08\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early June of 2018, I found my first (and only!) Ruffed Grouse in Orange County <\/a>at Black Rock Forest<\/a>, not far from Jupiter’s Boulder. Ever since then, I have gone back to that location at this time of the year in hopes of seeing another. Unfortunately, today’s hike did not produce any grouse, but I did have a excellent morning. It was cool and comfortable walk with plenty of birds. Highlights included my FOY (first of year) Acadian Flycatcher and Black-throated Blue Warblers. I watched a Red-tailed Hawk and a Broad-winged Hawk get into a tangle over Sutherland Pond. Ovenbird was the bird of the day – they seemed to be everywhere. My best observation, however, was not bird related. I got a fantastic look at beautiful Black Bear through some thick vegetation (which prevented photos). It was some really enjoyable summer-type birding and by the time I got back to my car, I had tallied 37 bird species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Louisiana Waterthrush at Black Rock Forest, 06\/08\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-eyed Vireo at BRF, 06\/08\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~There were absolutely loads of Ovenbirds at Black Rock Forest this morning, 06\/08\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Louisiana Waterthrush shot, Black Rock Forest 06\/08\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early June of 2018, I found my first (and only!) Ruffed Grouse in Orange County at Black Rock Forest, not far from Jupiter’s Boulder. Ever since then, I have gone back to that location at this time of the year in hopes of seeing another. Unfortunately, today’s hike did not produce any grouse, but I … Continue reading “Black Rock Forest, 06\/08\/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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3vy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","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=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}