{"id":14518,"date":"2025-11-23T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14518"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:58:32","slug":"sunday-shots-11-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14518","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/23\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend’s birding was a little bit of a mixed bag. Saturday morning I checked some nearby lakes and then went to the Newburgh Waterfront. I was hoping for any sort of interesting waterfowl but unfortunately I came up completely empty. I stopped by Kendridge Farm on my way home, and was able to salvage the morning by finding a couple of Fox Sparrows – my first of year. It was my 210th species of the year in Orange County. In the afternoon, I went out to the black dirt for a little while. It was mostly quiet, but I did find (4) young Bald Eagles on Lynch Avenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Rock Pigeon flock in flight out in the black dirt, 11\/23\/25.. I do not recall seeing this behavior by Rock Pigeons in the black dirt before – it was a sizable flock of approximately 50 birds and they kept flying and landing in an old corn field.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sunday was a better day for me. I took a nice hike at Reservoir 3 in Port Jervis first thing. It was a pleasant and birdy walk. Highlights included many Red-breasted Nuthatches and (4) Golden-crowned Kinglets. Noticeably, I did not hear any Red Crossbills flying over. Afterwards, I went to the black dirt and had a productive visit. I had a large flock of Snow Buntings (60+ birds); thank you to Karen Miller for the heads up. There were loads of Horned Larks flying around in loose flocks – I dipped on Lapland Longspur, but I was able to find a nice flock of American Pipits (approximately 30+ birds). My best bird of the day was a single Vesper Sparrow; it’s always nice to catch up with that species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Vesper Sparrow in the Black Dirt Region, 11\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I always enjoy a good flock of Snow Buntings. Black Dirt Region, 11\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Bluebird at Reservoir 3, 11\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of four young Bald Eagles in the black dirt on Saturday afternoon, 11\/22\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk in flight over the black dirt, 11\/22\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Eastern Bluebird at Res 3 near Port Jervis, 11\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-tailed Deer buck photographed during my travels through OC on Saturday morning, 11\/22\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This weekend’s birding was a little bit of a mixed bag. Saturday morning I checked some nearby lakes and then went to the Newburgh Waterfront. I was hoping for any sort of interesting waterfowl but unfortunately I came up completely empty. I stopped by Kendridge Farm on my way home, and was able to salvage … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/23\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Ma","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518","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=14518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14528,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518\/revisions\/14528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}