{"id":14508,"date":"2025-11-16T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:32:49","slug":"sunday-shots-raptor-edition-11-16-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14508","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots – Raptor Edition, 11\/16\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had relative success at my first stop this morning – Reservoir 3 in Port Jervis. My target bird was RED CROSSBILLS, and, although I didn’t get good looks or photos, I did have Red Crossbills fly over on three occasions. I need to figure out where those birds hang out in the Res 3 area – that’s still the big mystery. While I was there, I had a nice encounter with an adult Bald Eagle, so that was a little bit of a consolation prize for no crossbill pics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, I spent a little bit of time in the black dirt region. There were plenty of Horned Larks around – in loose, jumpy flocks. Amongst them, I had one Lapland Longspur and several Snow Buntings. I would later come across a small flock of approximately 25 Snow Buntings and after that, a single American Pipit hanging in there. I didn’t get any pics of the passerines, but I did have an opportunity with a male Peregrine Falcon and a little later with a female Northern Harrier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Adult Bald Eagle at Reservoir 3, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~You know it’s windy when you see a big bird like this fighting the wind a little bit. Bald Eagle at Res 3, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Peregrine Falcon in the black dirt region, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~PEFA in the black dirt, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One last shot of the Peregrine Falcon in the black dirt this morning, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Northern Harrier in flight in the black dirt region, 11\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had relative success at my first stop this morning – Reservoir 3 in Port Jervis. My target bird was RED CROSSBILLS, and, although I didn’t get good looks or photos, I did have Red Crossbills fly over on three occasions. I need to figure out where those birds hang out in the Res 3 … Continue reading “Sunday Shots – Raptor Edition, 11\/16\/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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3M0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","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=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}