{"id":14984,"date":"2026-06-21T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14984"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:53:34","slug":"sunday-shots-06-21-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14984","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 06\/21\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summer birding is in full swing, so there is not really all that much happening. On Saturday morning I spent some time in the Black Dirt Region, and then enjoyed a nice walk at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail<\/a>. I got my first look for the year at a Grasshopper Sparrow in the black dirt; otherwise it was just the usuals. At Winding Waters it was more of the usuals, but with loads of bugs – little tiny flying insects that were seemingly everywhere but somehow were not bothersome at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Goldfinch in the Black Dirt Region on Saturday morning, 06\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, I walked the Mongaup River Trail<\/a>, which has always been a good summer birding location. Highlights included: a couple pairs of Louisiana Waterthrushes, a glimpse of a single Magnolia Warbler, and a frustrating experience with a calling Blackburnian Warbler – the bird called, and called, and called, but I was never able to locate it. Still, it was a pleasant walk on a cool morning along the river. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Flying insects at Winding Waters Trail, 06\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My attempt at a close up – bugs at Winding Waters Trail, 06\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Singing Grasshopper Sparrow in the black dirt, 06\/20\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-winged Blackbird in the BDR, 06\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Young Killdeer in the black dirt, 06\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer birding is in full swing, so there is not really all that much happening. On Saturday morning I spent some time in the Black Dirt Region, and then enjoyed a nice walk at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Winding Waters Trail. I got my first look for the year at a Grasshopper Sparrow in … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 06\/21\/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_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":[23,6,19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3TG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984","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=14984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}