{"id":14587,"date":"2025-12-28T19:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:05:16","slug":"sandy-hook-12-28-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14587","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Hook, 12\/28\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I joined birding bud Maria Loukeris for a day of birding at Sandy Hook Gateway National Recreation Area<\/a>. It had been just over three years since I’d last birded Sandy Hook, so I jumped at the opportunity. We got very lucky with the weather; it was cold but with very little wind, which made it pleasant to be outside all day. All the birds we observed for the day were expected species, but there were still some nice highlights. My favorite moment of the day was getting a nice look (my first good look ever) at a beautiful Ipswich Savannah Sparrow<\/a>. See excellent photo by Maria below. We also enjoyed seeing and hearing several flocks of Snow Buntings flying up and down the beach. We eventually got lucky with a flock that put down on the beach not very far from us. Also , Yellow-rumped Warblers were numerous; we seemed to be seeing and hearing them at almost every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Photo by Maria Loukeris – Ipswich Savannah Sparrow at Sandy Hook on 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Sanderling on the move at Sandy Hook, 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Herring Gull on the snowy beach at Sandy Hook GNRA, 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of several Snow Bunting flocks that we saw throughout the day. Sandy Hook GNRA, 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-winged Scoter at Sandy Hook GNRA, 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Yellow-rumped Warbler at Sandy Hook, 12\/28\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Today I joined birding bud Maria Loukeris for a day of birding at Sandy Hook Gateway National Recreation Area. It had been just over three years since I’d last birded Sandy Hook, so I jumped at the opportunity. We got very lucky with the weather; it was cold but with very little wind, which made … Continue reading “Sandy Hook, 12\/28\/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":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Nh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","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=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14598,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions\/14598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}