{"id":15127,"date":"2026-08-16T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15127"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:50:27","slug":"sunday-shots-08-16-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15127","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/16\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, another weekend has come and gone, and we still have not had any shorebird presence to speak of in the Black Dirt Region. I was out both mornings, but essentially came up empty. Outside of Killdeer, the only other birds I was able to locate were a couple of Least Sandpipers, a Solitary Sandpiper, and a Lesser Yellowlegs. Jeanne Cimorelli was out this morning also, and she had a couple of Semipalmated Plovers. I also tried 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. Shorebird conditions have improved ever so slightly there, and I had about a dozen Least Sandpipers, a Semipalmated Sandpiper, and 3 Lesser Yellowlegs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bird of the weekend, however, was Laughing Gull. Bruce Nott reported one at the Newburgh Waterfront on Saturday morning. When I arrived, it had been joined by another, so I had two juvenile Laughing Gulls. I thought they were pretty sharp looking birds; the lighting was terrible when I was there, but that didn’t stop me from taking a bunch of photos. On Sunday morning, Travis Rubio reported unfortunately that one of the LAGUs had been taken by a Peregrine Falcon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Laughing Gull in flight at the Newburgh Waterfront, 08\/15\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LAGU at the Newburgh Waterfront, 08\/15\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Laughing Gull on the docks at the Newburgh Waterfront, 08\/15\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~LAGU with a snack. Newburgh Waterfront 08\/15\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I like this image. Mourning Doves in the black dirt, 08\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cooper’s hawk on a footbridge in the black dirt, 08\/16\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I believe this is an Eastern Wood-Pewee. Black Dirt Region on 08\/11\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, another weekend has come and gone, and we still have not had any shorebird presence to speak of in the Black Dirt Region. I was out both mornings, but essentially came up empty. Outside of Killdeer, the only other birds I was able to locate were a couple of Least Sandpipers, a Solitary Sandpiper, … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/16\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3VZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127","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=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15137,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions\/15137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}