{"id":14254,"date":"2025-07-06T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2025-07-06T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:57:12","slug":"sunday-shots-07-06-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14254","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/06\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To me, the summer doldrums of birding are in full swing right now. It was great to have a three day weekend and I got out  to do a little birding each morning. And while just I enjoyed being out, there isn&#8217;t all that much to report. In fact photos were even difficult for me this weekend. Regardless, here&#8217;s some notes from the weekend, as well as the shots was able to get. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On Friday, I followed up on a report for Ruffed Grouse at Sterling Forest first thing. I, unsurprisingly, did not have any luck with grouse, but I did pretty well with raptors for a relatively short visit, with 4 species (Broad-winged Hawk, Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, Turkey Vulture, and Bald Eagle. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also on Friday morning, I checked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9299\">Great Blue Heron rookery<\/a> I discovered back in July of 2019 (off of route 6, just east of Woodbury Commons). Unfortunately, it looks like that rookery no longer exists. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Saturday I walked the Liberty Loop again. Highlights include a pair of Least Sandpipers, a single Purple Martin, and a remarkable 31 Great Blue Herons in flight at one time. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Sunday, I kayaked out at the Bashakill. My best bird was Least Bittern &#8211; I had a single bird fly across the channel in front of me, and another bird calling, deep in the vegetation. Other good birds included a Brown Thrasher flying across the Bash, and a Common Gallinule that I inadvertently flushed with my approach down the channel. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, on a sad note, in spite of their best efforts, the Great Horned Owl owlet that I helped last weekend passed away at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avianwildlifecenter.org\">Avian Wildlife Center.<\/a> I know this is how it goes sometimes, but for some reason I was optimistic about that little dude. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~A young Red-winged Blackbird at the Bashakill, 07\/06\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SWSP-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Swamp Sparrow at the Liberty Loop, 07\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-SOSP-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Divebombing Song Sparrows at the Liberty Loop, 07\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070525-RWBL-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Red-winged Blackbird at the Liberty Loop, 07\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/070625-RWBL-2.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~One more young Red-winged Blackbird at the Bashakill, 07\/06\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, the summer doldrums of birding are in full swing right now. It was great to have a three day weekend and I got out to do a little birding each morning. And while just I enjoyed being out, there isn&#8217;t all that much to report. In fact photos were even difficult for me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots, 07\/06\/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":[6,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-sullivancounty","category-sussexcounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3HU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","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=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14261,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/14261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}