{"id":14906,"date":"2026-05-17T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14906"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:45:08","slug":"sunday-shots-long-island-edition-05-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14906","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, Long Island Edition 05\/17\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tricia and I attended a Friday wedding on Long Island. We rented a place on the water in East Patchogue, right on Patchogue Bay, with her family. On Saturday morning I was able to do some birding at small park right that was a couple doors down, before heading home. One of the neighbors has Purple Martin houses on his property, so I enjoyed plenty of Purple Martins that were flying around. Birds of note at the park included Forster’s Terns, Least Terns, and a relatively cooperative Snowy Egret. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snowy Egret in East Patchogue, Long Island, 05\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Snowy Egret in East Patchogue, 05\/16\/26. The Great Egret in the background serves as a nice comparison to the two most common egrets on Long Island.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday evening I birded 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary and added Semipalmated Plovers to my Orange County 2026 year list. This morning (Sunday), I birded the Middletown Reservoir Trails again – this is a place that is quickly becoming a favorite of mine – it always seems to be extremely birdy. My best bird was a Canada Warbler, which is not a bird I get very often in the county. Photos were tough this morning, but that’s just the way it goes sometimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~My only usable photo from this morning. Pileated Woodpecker at Middletown Reservoir Trails, 05\/17\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Purple Martin, East Patchhogue 05\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Least Sandpiper in East Patchogue, NY 05\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Greater Yellowlegs wading in the Patchogue Bay, 05\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more Purple Martin shot – this one with nesting material. East Patchogue, NY 05\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tricia and I attended a Friday wedding on Long Island. We rented a place on the water in East Patchogue, right on Patchogue Bay, with her family. On Saturday morning I was able to do some birding at small park right that was a couple doors down, before heading home. One of the neighbors has … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, Long Island Edition 05\/17\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Sq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906","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=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14918,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}