{"id":14657,"date":"2026-01-11T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14657"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:05:53","slug":"sunday-shots-01-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14657","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 01\/11\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was not a very exciting weekend of birding, but it was still quite enjoyable. The warm temperatures we’ve been experiencing melted nearly all the snow, which allowed me to walk some trails. On Saturday I went to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail. I failed to find my target bird of the day – Northern Shrike – which has been reported there in recent days. But it was a nice, birdy walk and I added (3) species to my 2026 Orange County list: Northern Flicker, Swamp Sparrow, and Pine Siskin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~The bird of the day on Saturday 01\/10\/26 – I had plenty of American Trees Sparrow at Winding Waters Trail. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, I hit the trails again, this time at Kenridge Farm in Cornwall (apparently now known as Outdoor Discovery Center. Again, it wasn’t exciting as much as it was pleasant and birdy enough to keep me interested. I added just a single new species to my OC year list – Purple Finch. Afterwards, I went to the Newburgh Waterfront; it was a little too early in the day for any good gull action, but I did find one Red-breasted Merganser among the many Common Mergansers currently on the river. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Rough-legged Hawk in the black dirt on 01\/10\/26. I wonder if I’ll ever get another good photo op with one these birds – it’s been ages. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Tree Sparrow at Winding Waters Trail, 01\/10\/26. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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It was not a very exciting weekend of birding, but it was still quite enjoyable. The warm temperatures we’ve been experiencing melted nearly all the snow, which allowed me to walk some trails. On Saturday I went to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail. I failed to find my target bird of the … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 01\/11\/26”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Op","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657","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=14657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14663,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}