{"id":14785,"date":"2026-03-22T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14785"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:21:38","slug":"sunday-shots-03-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14785","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 03\/22\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things are starting to happen. We have open water throughout the county. On Wednesday, Karen VanDyk found a Red-necked Grebe at Lockenhurst Pond; I ran for the bird on Thursday evening after work, and fortunately it was still present – I’ve included a photo of the bird at the bottom of this post. I enjoyed distant but nice looks at the bird, as well as the male Red-breasted Merganser that Karen had reported there as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday I took a 7 mile hike out at Black Rock Forest. It was a pleasant walk; birdy enough to keep me interested, and the weather was pleasant. I added a few birds to my Orange County year list – I finally got a couple of Fox Sparrows, and I had my first Eastern Phoebes and Wood Ducks of the year. I stopped by the Newburgh Waterfront afterwards and got lucky with a Great Cormorant – thanks to Bruce Nott for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Eastern Phoebe giving me the side eye at Black Rock Forest on 03\/21\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then on Sunday, I birded several of the local lakes; I had plenty of waterfowl at many of the lakes, but the only new bird for the year was a Pied-billed Grebe. I also had a close but all too brief encounter with a River Otter – so brief I didn’t get any photos, but still it’s always exciting to see an otter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Ring-necked Duck at Orange-Rockland Lake, 03\/22\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My first Pied-billed Grebe of the year – Wickham Lake, 03\/22\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Rooftop Turkey Vulture in Goshen, NY on 03\/22\/26.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Great Cormorant at the Newburgh Waterfront, 03\/21\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I love these dudes. Rooftop TUVUs in Goshen, 03\/22\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Distant shot of the Red-necked Grebe at Lockenhurst Pond, 03\/19\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are starting to happen. We have open water throughout the county. On Wednesday, Karen VanDyk found a Red-necked Grebe at Lockenhurst Pond; I ran for the bird on Thursday evening after work, and fortunately it was still present – I’ve included a photo of the bird at the bottom of this post. I enjoyed … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 03\/22\/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_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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14785","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-3Qt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785","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=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14794,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}