{"id":1374,"date":"2013-05-22T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2013-05-22T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:26:31","slug":"shorebirds-at-wallkill-river-nwr-52213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Shorebirds at Wallkill River NWR – 5\/22\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stilt Sandpiper (left) and a Dunlin (right) at Wallkill River NWR 5\/22\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to John Haas informing me earlier this week and also an alert from Rob Stone today, I was able to see a really nice collection of shorebirds at Wallkill River NWR after work this evening. I particularly wanted to see the Stilt Sandpiper, a bird that I have seen before but it has been a couple of years and I feel like I saw the bird today with different eyes. I also want to thank Tom Burke (I hope I spelled that correctly) who I met for the first time today. He gave me a crash course in shorebird identification and help me compile a really nice list today:<\/p>\n

Semipalmated Plover\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKilldeer
\nSpotted Sandpiper
\nLesser Yellowlegs
\nSemipalmated Sandpiper
\nLeast Sandpiper
\nWhite-rumped Sandpiper<\/strong>
\nDunlin<\/strong>
\nStilt Sandpiper\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Miller met me out there a little later and we walked the Liberty Loop on our way to seeing 41 species. The highlight for me was my first of season Indigo Buntings. Here’s a Downy we had on the east side of the loop:<\/p>\n

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Downy Woodpecker at Wallkill River NWR 5\/22\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to John Haas informing me earlier this week and also an alert from Rob Stone today, I was able to see a really nice collection of shorebirds at Wallkill River NWR after work this evening. I particularly wanted to see the Stilt Sandpiper, a bird that I have seen before but it has been … Continue reading “Shorebirds at Wallkill River NWR – 5\/22\/13”<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-ma","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}