{"id":1426,"date":"2013-06-15T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-06-15T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:04:17","slug":"saturday-61513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 6\/15\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Right before the rain on Friday evening, a Cedar Waxwing posed nicely. Appalachian Trail near Route 94, Vernon NJ.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a long week of rainy weather and being sick, I woke up early this morning raring to go. My main objective was to get a good photo of a Grasshopper Sparrow.I did not achieve this objective because I never saw any! I went back to the Appalachian Trail near Route 94 in Vernon, NJ where we had a least four last weekend, but I had no luck. I heard one Grasshopper Sparrow, but I never did locate it. \u00a0I had also tried yesterday evening\u00a0– I heard and saw at least two Grasshopper Sparrows but the light was not very good with the rain coming in. This morning, the light was much better for photos, so I went to work on my second objective which was to bring home some decent photos. I feel like I haven’t done well lately with the camera, so I wanted to work on it. While I was at it, I ended up with 22 species of bird:<\/p>\n

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A singing Field Sparrow out at the AT, \u00a06\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mallard \u00a02
\nGreat Blue Heron \u00a02
\nMourning Dove \u00a06
\nNorthern Flicker \u00a02
\nGreat Crested Flycatcher \u00a01
\nYellow-throated Vireo \u00a01
\nAmerican Crow \u00a04
\nCommon Raven \u00a02
\nBarn Swallow \u00a06
\nAmerican Robin \u00a01
\nNorthern Mockingbird \u00a02
\nEuropean Starling \u00a010
\nCedar Waxwing \u00a05
\nYellow Warbler \u00a01
\nField Sparrow \u00a04
\nGrasshopper Sparrow \u00a01
\nNorthern Cardinal \u00a01
\nIndigo Bunting \u00a02
\nRed-winged Blackbird \u00a08
\nCommon Grackle \u00a02
\nBrown-headed Cowbird \u00a01<\/p>\n

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A Great Crested Flycatcher as I was leaving the Appalachian Trail near Route 94, 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After about an hour, I headed over to Wallkill River NWR to walk the Liberty Loop. It was quite birdy as I walked the loop and I ended up with 36 species and I took a LOT of photos. The results were mixed, but here is my species list as well as some of my better shots.<\/p>\n

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Red-winged Blackbird at Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose \u00a015
\nMallard \u00a014
\nGreat Blue Heron \u00a08
\nTurkey Vulture \u00a04
\nRock Pigeon \u00a01
\nChimney Swift \u00a01
\nWillow Flycatcher \u00a03
\nGreat Crested Flycatcher \u00a02
\nEastern Kingbird \u00a04
\nYellow-throated Vireo \u00a01
\nWarbling Vireo \u00a01
\nAmerican Crow \u00a04
\nTree Swallow \u00a02
\nBarn Swallow \u00a01
\nTufted Titmouse \u00a02
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch \u00a01
\nEastern Bluebird \u00a03
\nWood Thrush \u00a02
\nAmerican Robin \u00a012
\nGray Catbird \u00a06
\nBrown Thrasher \u00a03
\nCedar Waxwing \u00a06
\nCommon Yellowthroat \u00a02
\nYellow Warbler \u00a06
\nSong Sparrow \u00a016
\nSwamp Sparrow \u00a010
\nNorthern Cardinal \u00a01
\nRose-breasted Grosbeak \u00a01
\nIndigo Bunting \u00a02
\nBobolink \u00a03
\nRed-winged Blackbird \u00a0X
\nCommon Grackle \u00a08
\nBrown-headed Cowbird \u00a02
\nOrchard Oriole \u00a01
\nBaltimore Oriole \u00a02
\nAmerican Goldfinch \u00a03<\/p>\n

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Easily the highlight of my morning, one of three Brown Thrashers out at Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My favorite photo of the day – Willow Flycatcher at Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This Rose-breasted Grosbeak was really enjoying some mulberries. Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indigo Bunting at Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was at first glance confused by this young Eastern Bluebird. Wallkill River NWR 6\/15\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow morning I will head out to the Shawangunk Grasslands. I am following a hot tip from Scotty Baldinger who reported to the Mearns Bird Club<\/a> that he had FIVE Grasshopper Sparrows out there this morning…<\/p>\n

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After a long week of rainy weather and being sick, I woke up early this morning raring to go. My main objective was to get a good photo of a Grasshopper Sparrow.I did not achieve this objective because I never saw any! I went back to the Appalachian Trail near Route 94 in Vernon, NJ … Continue reading “Saturday 6\/15\/13”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-sussexcounty","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-n0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}