{"id":15230,"date":"2026-09-27T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:52:26","slug":"sunday-shots-09-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15230","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 09\/27\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend’s nor’easter foiled my scheduled plans. I was supposed to go on a fishing trip with my work on Saturday and then I was going to count at Mount Peter Hawkwatch on Sunday. Both didn’t happen due to the weather. Instead, I birded the black dirt both mornings, hoping that the storm would bring in something exciting. That didn’t happen, but the birding was still pretty good. Of note, I got my first good look at an American Pipit and even had a small flock flying in the distance. I got my first Lincoln’s Sparrow of the year. I also did really well with raptors. It made me think about how lucky we are to have access to so many raptors in our area; sometimes I think I take it for granted. During my travels between the two days, I had 11 species of raptors: Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Cooper’s Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, and Barred Owl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Orange County Barred Owl, 09\/26\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My first American Pipit shot of the year, Black Dirt Region, 09\/27\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I seem to be running into the same 4 Sandhill Cranes just about every weekend. Here’s two of the four flying over the Liberty Loop, 09\/26\/26.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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-One more shot of the Barred Owl, Orange County NY 09\/26\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This weekend’s nor’easter foiled my scheduled plans. I was supposed to go on a fishing trip with my work on Saturday and then I was going to count at Mount Peter Hawkwatch on Sunday. Both didn’t happen due to the weather. Instead, I birded the black dirt both mornings, hoping that the storm would bring … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 09\/27\/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-15230","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-3XE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230","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=15230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15236,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions\/15236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}