{"id":15092,"date":"2026-08-09T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15092"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:22:06","slug":"sunday-shots-08-09-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15092","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/09\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well the big excitement for the weekend took place in Lafayette Township New Jersey on Saturday morning, when I caught up with the SWALLOW-TAILED KITE<\/a> that had been reported there. I’m including a couple additional photos of that bird at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My focus for the weekend, however, was shorebirds. I checked the black dirt both mornings and also 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary on Sunday morning. Unfortunately I came up mostly empty, finding only Killdeer (many), a single Solitary Sandpiper, and a couple of Semipalmated Plovers. In the black dirt I did enjoy spending some time with a family of Horned Larks – readers of the blog know that I love Horned Larks, especially the young birds. At 6 1\/2 Station Road, birds of note included an Osprey, a Great Egret, and a couple of Green Herons (and, notably, not a single shorebird – conditions are not good for them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Young Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~HOLA in the black dirt, 08\/o8\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Handsome little devil. HOLA in the black dirt, 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~HOLA in the BDR, 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Green Heron at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/09\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Osprey flying overhead at 6 1\/2 Station Road, 08\/09\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Swallow-tailed Kite eating on the wing, Lafayette Township NJ, 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~STKI flying directly overhead in Lafayette Township, NJ 08\/08\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Well the big excitement for the weekend took place in Lafayette Township New Jersey on Saturday morning, when I caught up with the SWALLOW-TAILED KITE that had been reported there. I’m including a couple additional photos of that bird at the bottom of this post. My focus for the weekend, however, was shorebirds. I checked … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/09\/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":[11,23,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Vq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092","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=15092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}