{"id":14116,"date":"2025-04-13T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:13:37","slug":"sunday-shots-04-13-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14116","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 04\/13\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoyed a decent Sunday morning of birding, hitting several of my usual spots &#8211; Wickham Lake, Wallkill River NWR&#8217;s Liberty Loop and Winding Waters, and of course, the black dirt. It was mostly the usuals, but I enjoyed being out and a I was fortunate enough to get a few decent photo ops. My highlight was having a single Bonaparte&#8217;s Gull at Wickham Lake fly in and land not too far out from where I was standing on shore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-2.jpg 1606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Beautiful bird &#8211; Bonaparte&#8217;s Gull at Wickham Lake, 04\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-PAWA.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Singing Palm Warbler at Wickham Lake, 04\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-GRYE-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Greater Yellowlegs in the black dirt, 04\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/041325-BOGU.jpg 2018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~One more shot of the beautiful Bonie at Wickham Lake, 04\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed a decent Sunday morning of birding, hitting several of my usual spots &#8211; Wickham Lake, Wallkill River NWR&#8217;s Liberty Loop and Winding Waters, and of course, the black dirt. It was mostly the usuals, but I enjoyed being out and a I was fortunate enough to get a few decent photo ops. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots, 04\/13\/25&#8221;<\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3FG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","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=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14122,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions\/14122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}