{"id":14099,"date":"2025-04-06T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:34:25","slug":"a-good-sunday-morning-birding-04-06-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14099","title":{"rendered":"A Good Sunday Morning Birding, 04\/06\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first stop this morning was Glenmere Lake, where I found 2 Common Loons. Karen Miller went there a little later in the morning and she had a total of 4 Common Loons. Next I went to Wickham Lake, where it was busy. Highlights included 5 Bonaparte’s Gulls and a female Red-breasted Merganser. I also had my first Great Egret and Spotted Sandpiper of 2025. I then tried a few more southern Orange County lakes, but came up empty, so I headed to the Newburgh Waterfront. It was a successful morning on the river; I was able to catch up with the 5 Great Cormorants and the Black-crowned Night Heron which have been reported this week. l also added another 11 Bonaparte’s Gulls to the day’s tally. And, finally, there was also decent sized flock of scaup (40 birds) on the river; they were distant and difficult to identify, but I was able to discern several each of both Lessers and Greaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bonaparte’s Gull at Wickham Lake, 04\/06\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Not exactly a primo photo op, but always a good bird to see. Black-crowned Night Heron on Quassaic Creek, 04\/06\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Sleeping Mourning Dove in the black dirt, 04\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wilson’s Snipe on Lynch Avenue in the black dirt region, 04\/05\/35. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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My first stop this morning was Glenmere Lake, where I found 2 Common Loons. Karen Miller went there a little later in the morning and she had a total of 4 Common Loons. Next I went to Wickham Lake, where it was busy. Highlights included 5 Bonaparte’s Gulls and a female Red-breasted Merganser. I also … Continue reading “A Good Sunday Morning Birding, 04\/06\/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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-newburgh-waterfront","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Fp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","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=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14105,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}