{"id":14529,"date":"2025-11-30T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14529"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:18:08","slug":"sunday-shots-11-30-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14529","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/30\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winter birding is here, which I definitely enjoy – I love getting out in the cold weather and seeing what’s around. And was a long weekend, so I got out a decent amount and I covered a lot of ground in the county. The only real excitement was finding and photographing a lovely pair of River Otters, which is always a treat. Otherwise, it was mostly the usuals, with some modest highlights thrown in – I had some Purple Finches at Harriman Park, a couple of Cackling Geese in the pond on Carpenter Road, a single Snow Goose in with a large flock of Canadas flying over the black dirt, and I did pretty well with raptors over the weekend, with 9 species making a showing (Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, American Kestrel, and Merlin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Orange County River Otter, 11\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Orange County River Otter, 11\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One final shot – OC River Otter 11\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Sterling Forest, 11\/29\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of many, many Horned Larks in the black dirt these days. This one was taken 11\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A young Northern Harrier in flight in the Black Dirt Region, 11\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cackling Goose in the black dirt, 11\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~European Starlings in flight in the black dirt, 11\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter birding is here, which I definitely enjoy – I love getting out in the cold weather and seeing what’s around. And was a long weekend, so I got out a decent amount and I covered a lot of ground in the county. The only real excitement was finding and photographing a lovely pair of … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/30\/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-14529","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-3Ml","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14529","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=14529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14540,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14529\/revisions\/14540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}