{"id":14664,"date":"2026-01-18T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14664"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:49:28","slug":"snowy-sunday-shots-01-18-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14664","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Sunday Shots, 01\/18\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it was certainly a snowy weekend, and I birded as the snow fell on both mornings. First thing Saturday morning I took a walk at Black Rock Forest. There is a feeder station there that was pretty active, particularly with modest sized flock of Purple Finches. Afterwards, I went to the Newburgh waterfront – visibility was terrible with the heavy snowfall, but it was still nice to be out and at the river – I was enjoying the different aesthetic of the day, where everything is just in shades of gray and white. I had only the three expected species of gulls in Newburgh, so I went over to Beacon, where I didn’t do any better, in fact I only had Ring-billed and American Herring Gulls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ring-billed Gull at the Beacon Waterfront, 01\/17\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday morning I ventured out into the snow again. My initial target was the Ross’s Goose that had been reported this week at two locations in Warwick. I dipped on that bird, so I headed over to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail to try for the Northern Shrike again. That bird has been very unreliable, and I had no luck again. Same as Saturday though, it was just nice to just be out in the weather and I enjoyed the few birds that I did find along the trail. Afterwards I car-birded in the black dirt for a while as I made my way home. It was nice to be out, but I didn’t have any birds of note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~White-throated Sparrow taking off. Winding Waters Trail, 01\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-throated Sparrow sitting in the snow at Winding Waters Trail, 01\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I had my first Great Blue Heron of 2026 at Memorial Park in Warwick this morning, 01\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~In the field I thought this was a House Finch. Looking at the photo now, I’m thinking it’s likely a Purple Finch. Black Rock Forest on 01\/17\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it was certainly a snowy weekend, and I birded as the snow fell on both mornings. First thing Saturday morning I took a walk at Black Rock Forest. There is a feeder station there that was pretty active, particularly with modest sized flock of Purple Finches. Afterwards, I went to the Newburgh waterfront – … Continue reading “Snowy Sunday Shots, 01\/18\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","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-3Ow","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","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=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14673,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions\/14673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}