{"id":1393,"date":"2013-06-01T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2013-06-01T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:21:17","slug":"early-saturday-morning-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Early Saturday Morning Birding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Wren out at Denning’s Point State Park, 6\/1\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got up early to try to beat the heat this morning and headed out to Denning’s Point State Park. I had not been out there since last year<\/a>, so I was hoping to have some luck with Green Herons and Black-crowned Night Herons. As it turned out, the park was not extremely birdy on this day and I did not see any herons at all. \u00a0All told I had 22 species, many of which were only heard. On my way back to the car I enjoyed the highlight \u00a0of the visit, an amazing Red-tail Hawk with beautiful markings.<\/p>\n

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I love the markings on this bird, particularly the very light head and the very dark area at the base of the bill – I’m not sure if that would be considered the Mustachial stripe or the Malar (or both?). Red-tailed Hawk on a light post at Denning’s Point State Park, 6\/1\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I sat on a rock and watched this bird for a good while. Periodically a Red-winged Blackbird would dive-bomb the hawk…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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…eventually the hawk had had enough and took off, giving me a great look at its gorgeous red tail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I left Denning’s Point and then headed to Kenridge Farm<\/a>. I walked the extensive trails there for close to two hours and although I did not see or hear anything our of the ordinary, I did pretty well, identifying 28 species of birds. My “best birds” where: Brown Thrasher, four Killdeer (two of which I believe were immatures), a female Mallard with ducklings, and a pair of Green Herons.<\/p>\n

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I finally got a good enough look at a Green Heron for a photo. Kenridge Farm 6\/1\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Three of four Killdeer out at Kenridge Farm, 6\/1\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The heat was getting pretty unbearable and the harsh sun was making for difficult photography when I wrapped it up at 11:30 am. It was a morning of enjoyable, but not amazing, birding.<\/p>\n

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I got up early to try to beat the heat this morning and headed out to Denning’s Point State Park. I had not been out there since last year, so I was hoping to have some luck with Green Herons and Black-crowned Night Herons. As it turned out, the park was not extremely birdy on … Continue reading “Early Saturday Morning Birding”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-mt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}