{"id":14000,"date":"2025-01-26T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2025-01-26T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:53:30","slug":"a-good-weekend-01-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14000","title":{"rendered":"A Good Weekend, 01\/26\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Saturday, I spent the day birding at the Jersey Shore with birding buds Maria Loukeris and Linda Scrima. I was serendipitous that Maria suggested a road trip, I was feeling like I was definitely ready for a break from local birding, and the beach was already on my mind. We spent most of the morning at Manasquan Inlet. All three of us were able to achieve scope views of our two target birds: Razorbill and DOVEKIE. I was hoping to get an alcid close enough for photos, but it wasn’t in the cards. As expected, the location was very birdy and also very, very cold. Other highlights included photo ops of Snow Buntings and Long-tailed Ducks, a couple of seals, and a nice-sized flock of Purple Sandpipers (with a trio of Sanderlings mixed in). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~It’s a little different seeing Snow Buntings at the beach! I’m so used to seeing them in the typically drab black dirt habitat. SNBU at Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, we went to Shark River Inlet, where we had a close encounter with a Cooper’s Hawk, got some better looks and photos of Purple Sandpipers, enjoyed our first Surf Scoters of the day, and watched as hundreds of Black Scoters streamed by. A delicious late lunch at The Greek Spot was a nice way to wrap up a good day of Jersey Shore birding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~The puppy dog of ducks, a Long-tailed Duck at Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Purple Sandpiper at Shark River Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I always enjoy it when I get to see some Brant. This one was at Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cooper’s Hawk at Shark River Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Locally, I would have spent much time with any Common Loon. On the Jersey Shore, they are numerous and easy to take for granted. COLO at Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snow Bunting on a rope, Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Seal at Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Long-tailed Duck from Manasquan Inlet, 01\/25\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning I birded the Black Dirt Region and things were on the quiet side, with just the usuals observed. In the afternoon I went to the Newburgh Waterfront to try for gulls. I was lucky with a cooperative Iceland Gull, however that was the only out-of-the-ordinary gull I was able to locate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Gray Ghost in the black dirt, o1\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Iceland Gull with the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in the background. Newburgh Waterfront, 01\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Iceland Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront, 01\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A sharp looking Horned Lark in the black dirt, 01\/26\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, I spent the day birding at the Jersey Shore with birding buds Maria Loukeris and Linda Scrima. I was serendipitous that Maria suggested a road trip, I was feeling like I was definitely ready for a break from local birding, and the beach was already on my mind. We spent most of the … Continue reading “A Good Weekend, 01\/26\/25”<\/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":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":[28,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3DO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000","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=14000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14017,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions\/14017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}