{"id":14920,"date":"2026-05-28T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:35:20","slug":"oc-prothonotary-warbler-and-monhegan-island-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14920","title":{"rendered":"OC Prothonotary Warbler and Monhegan Island Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning after an early doctor’s appointment, I ran for the PROTHONOTARY WARBLER that’s been seen at Sterling Forest State Park<\/a>. I believe the bird was originally found by Kathy Ashman; congrats to Kathy on an excellent find. I arrived at the spot and joined Silas Wareham<\/a> and another birder who I didn’t know. The bird was actively calling not too far off the road; it eventually made its way to the roadside and the three of us were able to get some really good looks and some photos, and wow, what a gorgeous bird. I was excited to get the the bird in Orange County as it was a county life bird, number 282 for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Prothonotary Warbler at Sterling Forest SP, 05\/28\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Beautiful bird! PROW at Sterling Forest, 05\/28\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Prothonotary Warbler at Sterling Forest SP, 05\/28\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MONHEGAN ISLAND 2026 TEASER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red Crossbill on Monhegan Island, 05\/24\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tricia and I just returned yesterday afternoon from a 5 day trip to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. The island was loaded with songbirds as expected, but this year’s visit also included a rare raptor surprise. It will take be a few days to get through all the photos, so I am planning on publishing the post sometime this weekend – stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning after an early doctor’s appointment, I ran for the PROTHONOTARY WARBLER that’s been seen at Sterling Forest State Park. I believe the bird was originally found by Kathy Ashman; congrats to Kathy on an excellent find. I arrived at the spot and joined Silas Wareham and another birder who I didn’t know. The … Continue reading “OC Prothonotary Warbler and Monhegan Island Teaser”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[38,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3SE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","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=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}