{"id":14271,"date":"2025-07-13T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:01:21","slug":"14271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14271","title":{"rendered":"Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s not very often these days that I get to say I did something completely new locally, but that was the case this morning. I went kayaking at Mongaup Falls Reservoir<\/a> in Sullivan County. Last night I was flipping through the book Quiet Water New York<\/a> by John Hayes & Alex Wilson, and I saw their write up for this location. I realized that in spite of how close it is, I somehow never kayaked there before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a cool misty morning went I put in. The mist stopped quickly, but the morning stayed cloudy and pleasantly cool. I wouldn’t have minded a little more light for photos, but what can you do? It was a very birdy paddle; I had over 45 species, and it was really just a peaceful morning to be out. Notable species for me included Common Merganser, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and Magnolia Warbler. Merlin heard Purple Finch a couple of times, but that’s a bird I’ve never been very good at identifying by ear. Merlin also identified RED CROSSBILL several times. I kept missing it when it happened, but then I finally I heard something and looked at my phone and it said Red Crossbill. I kept listening, and even though Merlin was no longer picking it up, I was sure I was hearing a Red Crossbill doing its chipa-chipa-chipa call. I was scanning the treetops madly, but frustratingly, I never got a visual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A young Common Yellowthroat at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I was surprised to see this young Green Heron – the habitat didn’t seem quite right for it to me. I guess I was wrong about that – I saw several Green Herons during my kayak around the reservoir.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I was less surprised to see this bird. Adult Bald Eagle at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~More young birds. Barn Swallows at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I’m pretty sure this is an Eastern Wood Pewee (I thought I heard some slight vocalization which sounded Pewee-like). Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Green Heron at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Another adult Bald Eagle at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~And one final shot of the young Green Heron at Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not very often these days that I get to say I did something completely new locally, but that was the case this morning. I went kayaking at Mongaup Falls Reservoir in Sullivan County. Last night I was flipping through the book Quiet Water New York by John Hayes & Alex Wilson, and I saw … Continue reading “Mongaup Falls Reservoir, 07\/13\/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":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-sullivancounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5i3kT-14271","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","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=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14282,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions\/14282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}