{"id":15062,"date":"2026-07-19T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15062"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:37:14","slug":"barn-swallows-07-18-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15062","title":{"rendered":"Barn Swallows, 07\/18\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a slow couple of weeks, but I’m optimistic that things will start happening pretty soon. The only birds of note that I had in the past couple of weeks was (8) or so Least Sandpipers at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary on Sunday 07\/19\/26. The highlight of the birding weekend for me, however, was spending some time with a pair of young Barn Swallows at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Loop platform. Linda Scrima joined me as we observed and photographed this captivating pair of young swallows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Young Barn Swallows at Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~An adult comes in and feeds one of the young on the fly. Barn Swallows at Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Tell me these two aren’t excited? Barn Swallows at Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Young Barn Swallows at Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~More young Barn Swallow excitement. Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Barn Swallows at Liberty Marsh, 07\/18\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a slow couple of weeks, but I’m optimistic that things will start happening pretty soon. The only birds of note that I had in the past couple of weeks was (8) or so Least Sandpipers at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary on Sunday 07\/19\/26. The highlight of the birding weekend for me, however, … Continue reading “Barn Swallows, 07\/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_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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15062","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-3UW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062","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=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15070,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions\/15070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}