{"id":13510,"date":"2024-06-23T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13510"},"modified":"2024-06-23T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T20:18:33","slug":"sunday-shots-06-23-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13510","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 06\/23\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are in the summer doldrums of birding. Especially with the heat wave that we are currently experiencing. That said, it didn’t stop Bruce Nott from finding two exciting birds this week at the Newburgh Waterfront: a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a LAUGHING GULL. I ran for the birds Saturday morning and while I was successful with the Lesser Black-backed, I dipped on the Laughing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday I birded the black dirt, including Liberty Marsh, where I first heard, and then saw my first Least Bittern of the year. It sounded like the bird was pretty deep in the marsh, but when I eventually found it, while it was a little bit out there, it was in plain sight and scope views were excellent. Photos not so much, but that’s how it goes sometimes (I’ve included a doc-shot at the bottom of this post). Regardless, I was out and about and taking photos as usual this weekend, so I hope you enjoy this week’s Sunday Shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Nice find by Bruce Nott – Lesser Black-backed Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 06\/22\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lesser Black-backed Gull in flight, Newburgh Waterfront 06\/22\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I believe this is a young Orchard Oriole at Winding Waters Trail last weekend, 06\/16\/24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It’s that time of year again. Killdeer chick in the black dirt, 06\/23\/24. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Killdeer close-up. Black dirt 06\/23\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This was a first for me – a Grasshopper Sparrow singing on a perch on the ground. Black dirt region, o6\/23\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Green Heron at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 06\/16\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Least Bittern at Liberty Marsh, 06\/23\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are in the summer doldrums of birding. Especially with the heat wave that we are currently experiencing. That said, it didn’t stop Bruce Nott from finding two exciting birds this week at the Newburgh Waterfront: a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a LAUGHING GULL. I ran for the birds Saturday morning and while I was … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 06\/23\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13510","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-3vU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","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=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}