{"id":1585,"date":"2013-07-27T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2013-07-27T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:57:12","slug":"wallkill-river-nwr-a-week-of-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Wallkill River NWR – A Week of Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made it out to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge a couple of times this week and took many photos. A good collection of shorebirds continue at the refuge, as do a group of six Great Egrets (down from 10 last weekend). Herons are numerous, with Green Herons, Great Blue Herons, and Black-crowned Night Herons all being seen and heard. All the birds photographed were seen while walking the Liberty Loop Trail or on Liberty Lane. Here are some of the shots I got this week:<\/p>\n

Click on photos to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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One of four Greater Yellowlegs at the refuge on 7\/24\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I got to see this Lesser Yellowlegs near a Greater Yellowlegs and a Solitary Sandpiper. It was really interesting to note the differences between the three. Wallkill River NWR 7\/24\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A Solitary Sandpiper and a Lesser Yellowlegs at the refuge on Wednesday 7\/24\/13. I don’t love this photo but I like seeing the two birds together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The morning light was really appealing, and I am really happy with the colors in this photo. Great Egrets at Wallkill River NWR 7\/27\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Egret at the refuge this morning, 7\/27\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Who’s gonna mess with this crew? Not me. Five of six Great Egrets at Wallkill River NWR 7\/27\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’ve been seeing a hearing plenty of Green Herons at the refuge, but not getting close enough for any good photos. Wallkill River NWR 7\/27\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Blue Herons are numerous out at Wallkill River NWR. This one flew right in front of me. This Shot is SOOC, taken 7\/25\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Birds flying away usually don’t make for great photos, but I sort of like this one. GBHE out at Wallkill River NWR 7\/25\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was with Karen Miller and Sharon Dewey Scavotto when we found this bird. We were all stumped, and after getting home and looking briefly in some books I’m guessing a young Brown-headed Cowbird, but I’m still not really sure. Please comment if you can I.D. this bird! Thanks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made it out to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge a couple of times this week and took many photos. A good collection of shorebirds continue at the refuge, as do a group of six Great Egrets (down from 10 last weekend). Herons are numerous, with Green Herons, Great Blue Herons, and Black-crowned Night Herons … Continue reading “Wallkill River NWR – A Week of Photos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-pz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}