{"id":14577,"date":"2025-12-21T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14577"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:36:24","slug":"a-good-weekend-12-21-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14577","title":{"rendered":"A Good Weekend, 12\/21\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Saturday I participated in the Christmas Bird Count for the first time ever. I joined Jodi Brodsky and birded the Newburgh Waterfront for the full day. With some key contributions from Bruce Nott, we had a total of 48 species. I’m not sure how that measures up to previous years, but I thought it was pretty good. The best bird for Jodi and I was a Great Cormorant. Thanks to Jodi for inviting me, she was a pleasure to bird with, and it was nice to do some birding with a purpose – it’s pretty rewarding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red-shouldered Hawk at Chadwick Lake Park, during the CBC on 12\/20\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today I hit a lot of my usual Orange County spots and got a lot of the usuals. Then I got word from Bruce that he had the Orange-crowned Warbler at the Newburgh Waterfront. I ran for the bird, and it stuck around for me – I’ve included a documentary shot of the bird at the bottom of this post. Later in the day, when I was home with a cat on my lap and my feet up, Silas Wareham contacted me. He had two ROSS’S GEESE in the Black Dirt Region. I ran for the birds and joined Silas and Linda Scrima who were on the birds when I arrived. It’s an interesting couple of geese – there is a fairly obvious size difference between the two, but I believe that can be attributed to sexual dimorphism. I will be reporting both of these birds as Ross’s, and we will see if the report is accepted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ross’s Geese in the black dirt, 12\/21\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Ross’s Geese in the black dirt, 12\/21\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Northern Yellow Warbler at the Newburgh Waterfront Trail, 12\/21\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A young Cooper’s Hawk, just after sunrise this morning in the black dirt, 12\/21\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Orange-crowned Warbler at the Newburgh Waterfront Trail, 12\/21\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On Saturday I participated in the Christmas Bird Count for the first time ever. I joined Jodi Brodsky and birded the Newburgh Waterfront for the full day. With some key contributions from Bruce Nott, we had a total of 48 species. I’m not sure how that measures up to previous years, but I thought it … Continue reading “A Good Weekend, 12\/21\/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":[23,33,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-newburgh-waterfront","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3N7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577","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=14577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14585,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions\/14585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}