{"id":13558,"date":"2024-07-14T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13558"},"modified":"2024-07-14T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:32:36","slug":"sunday-shots-07-14-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13558","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/14\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you missed it, the big excitement for me this weekend was the BLUE GROSBEAK<\/a> that I found in the black dirt on Friday evening. Reports indicate that the bird continues today, but I did not try for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I woke up early and headed back to Ashokan Reservoir to see if I could get a better look and photos of the PACIFIC LOON. As luck (and patience) would have it, the Pacific Loon, along with 16 Common Loons, eventually made a relatively close pass on Dike Road . I had been joined Diane Bliss, and the two of us enjoyed fantastic looks at the birds; it was really something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Pacific Loon with Common Loons at Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~PALO at Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Loons at Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Pacific Loon with a shy Common Loon, Ashokan Reservoir, 07\/14\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And as usual, I was taking pics throughout the weekend. I was hoping for some shorebirds, but I wasn’t able to find any new birds in county. I enjoyed spending some time with a pair of cooperative American Kestrels, as well as a Horned Lark that spent some quality time right next to my car on Friday evening. It’s been a good stretch of birding – much better than the summer doldrums I would have expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Female American Kestrel. Apparently it’s difficult to differentiate adult from a first year bird in the field, but based on its behavior (not very skittish), I’m thinking this is a young bird. Black Dirt Region 07\/13\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~First year male American Kestrel in the black dirt, o7\/13\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Lark up close and personal in the Black Dirt Region, 07\/12\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~HOLA in the black dirt, 07\/12\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wood Duck at 6 1\/2 Station Road, 07\/11\/24.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you missed it, the big excitement for me this weekend was the BLUE GROSBEAK that I found in the black dirt on Friday evening. Reports indicate that the bird continues today, but I did not try for it. Instead, I woke up early and headed back to Ashokan Reservoir to see if I could … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 07\/14\/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":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3wG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","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=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13572,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions\/13572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}