{"id":14225,"date":"2025-06-08T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:44:44","slug":"sunday-shots-06-08-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14225","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 06\/08\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend I hiked out at Reservoir #3 in Port Jervis both mornings. My target bird was Ruffed Grouse, which I know is a total longshot, but I had to try. Yesterday I cut my hike short when I was just soaked through and had had enough. So I gave it another go this morning in the dry weather. Both mornings were quite birdy; I had 22 species yesterday in the rain, and 34 species this morning. Species were all expected; highlights for me included Blackburnian Warblers and an Acadian Flycatcher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ovenbird at Reservoir #3, 06\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also spent some time at the Liberty Loop platform on Saturday. My best bird was a calling Least Bittern. I also enjoyed a couple of Green Herons which were spending some time around the platform, providing some photo ops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Green Heron coming right at me. Liberty Loop, 06\/07\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~GRHE at Liberty Loop, 06\/07\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Green Heron shot from the Liberty Loop platform, 06\/07\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black-and-white Warbler at Reservoir #3, 06\/08\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend I hiked out at Reservoir #3 in Port Jervis both mornings. My target bird was Ruffed Grouse, which I know is a total longshot, but I had to try. Yesterday I cut my hike short when I was just soaked through and had had enough. So I gave it another go this morning … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 06\/08\/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":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","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=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14232,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}