{"id":15237,"date":"2026-10-04T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:40:43","slug":"sunday-shots-10-04-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15237","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 10\/04\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was an enjoyable weekend of birding for me. On Saturday I counted up at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. It was a slow day for migrating raptors, but I still enjoyed the day. I had over two dozen species outside of migrating raptors, and I also had some really nice and interested\/interesting visitors. I’ve included my Hawkcount.org<\/a> report at the bottom of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, this morning, I walked the full Winding Waters loop at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>. It was a very birdy walk where I tallied over 40 species observed. Sparrows ruled the day, with a single Field Sparrow, a handful of Dark-eyed Juncos, and plenty of Song, Swamp, Lincoln’s, White-throated, and Savannah sparrows. Other birds of note included a Sandhill Crane flyover (2 birds), a couple of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, several Golden-crowned Kinglets, a single Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a couple of Pine Warblers, and three Palm Warblers. The Palm Warblers were species #200 in Orange County for the year; it always feels good to reach that milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Always a favorite – Lincoln’s Sparrow at Winding Waters Trail, 10\/04\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black-throated Green Warbler with some pleasant fall foliage in the background at Mount Peter Hawkwatch 10\/03\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A quick stop by the Liberty Loop after Winding Waters yielded this Palm Warbler shot, 10\/04\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It was pretty cool to see this Great Blue Heron standing in the white water in the Wallkill River along the north end of the trail.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A local Red-tailed Hawk at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/03\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Blue-headed Vireo at Mount Peter Hawkwatch, 10\/03\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was an enjoyable weekend of birding for me. On Saturday I counted up at Mount Peter Hawkwatch. It was a slow day for migrating raptors, but I still enjoyed the day. I had over two dozen species outside of migrating raptors, and I also had some really nice and interested\/interesting visitors. I’ve included my … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 10\/04\/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-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3XL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","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=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15250,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/15250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}