{"id":15309,"date":"2026-10-25T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15309"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:30:40","slug":"sunday-shots-10-25-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15309","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 10\/25\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I tried a couple of lakes first thing this morning, hoping for some interesting waterfowl. It took a while because Wickham Lake was totally fogged in until nearly two hours after sunrise. It ultimately wasn’t worth the wait – the only waterfowl present were Mute Swans, a single Double-crested Cormorant, and a couple of Common Mergansers. While I waited for the fog to clear, I enjoyed birding the park; I had a pair of somewhat cooperative Palm Warblers and a less cooperative Ruby-crowned Kinglet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Palm Warbler at Wickham Lake, 10\/25\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second lake I hit was Glenmere; it was a bust, so I headed to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. I took a birdy walk along the Heritage Trail, where I tallied 33 species. Highlights included a couple of Blue-winged Teals (my first of the year), a Rusty Blackbird, over a dozen Ring-billed Gulls, a bunch of Yellow-rumped Warblers, and a nice photo op with a Hooded Merganser. . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Hooded Merganser at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 10\/25\/26. I’m loving the feathers on the underwing of this bird.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Wickham Lake, 10\/25\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Mute Swans during a foggy morning at Wickham Lake, 10\/25\/26~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Hooded Merganser at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried a couple of lakes first thing this morning, hoping for some interesting waterfowl. It took a while because Wickham Lake was totally fogged in until nearly two hours after sunrise. It ultimately wasn’t worth the wait – the only waterfowl present were Mute Swans, a single Double-crested Cormorant, and a couple of Common … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 10\/25\/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-15309","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-3YV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309","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=15309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15317,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}