{"id":14393,"date":"2025-09-14T18:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:08:16","slug":"orange-county-connecticut-warbler-09-14-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14393","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Connecticut Warbler, 09\/14\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went to Winding Waters Trail first thing this morning with CONNECTICUT WARBLER being my primary target bird. I was also hoping for Lincoln’s Sparrow, but I knew that bird wouldn’t be nearly as difficult to track down. I walked the trail; it was quite birdy on my way out, and I picked up a couple of Lincoln’s Sparrows. It wasn’t until I was on my way back in that I first heard and then saw my primary target. Unfortunately, the bird was severely backlit, so my photos aren’t great. But I think I’ve heard more than one person say that any photo of a Connecticut Warbler is a good photo. I was happy to get lucky with this bird it’s been several years since I’ve had one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Good bird for the county… Connecticut Warbler at Winding Waters Trail, 09\/14\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the morning I headed to Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I wanted to try for some Broad-winged Hawks since I was out of commission on Saturday (see below). We had some early movement, including just over 40 Broadwings, a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks, a young Bald Eagle, and a couple of Osprey. It slowed down mid-day, and I left. But it picked up again and they finished the day with over 500 Broad-winged Hawks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, I went on a fishing trip in the Long Island Sound with my work. It was a successful trip for those who were fishing – they were pulling up fish left and right. For me, I don’t fish, but I enjoyed birding and taking some photos as we went. All the birds I had were expected, including four species of gulls. It’s been a minute since I’ve posted any gull shots, so here’s all four species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Herring Gull in flight over the Long Island Sound, 09\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ring-billed Gull during Long Island Sound fishing trip, 09\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Laughing Gull taking off. Long Island Sound, 09\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A sharp looking young Great Black-backed Gull, Long Island Sound 09\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to Winding Waters Trail first thing this morning with CONNECTICUT WARBLER being my primary target bird. I was also hoping for Lincoln’s Sparrow, but I knew that bird wouldn’t be nearly as difficult to track down. I walked the trail; it was quite birdy on my way out, and I picked up a … Continue reading “Orange County Connecticut Warbler, 09\/14\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3K9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393","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=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14403,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions\/14403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}