{"id":2335,"date":"2014-02-07T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2014-02-07T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:34:38","slug":"lapland-longspurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"LAPLAND LONGSPURS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nine<\/a>
Nine of at least twelve (!!!) LAPLAND LONGSPURS, Pine Island 2\/7\/14. Three birds were cropped out of this photos, see below for all 12 in one shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had an awesome evening of birding today after work. I headed to the Pine Island area, as I have for the last three evenings; it has been very active with good numbers of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings being seen. Today, my travels were rewarded with quite the treat- at least 12 LAPLAND LONGSPURS<\/strong> feeding on the roadside. While I was in the field I estimated 15 birds, but the most I have in any of my photos is 12. What an experience seeing these birds and to also be able to get some decent photos!<\/p>\n

\"Lapland<\/a>
Lapland Longspur in the snow, Pine Island NY 2\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just before sunset I headed over to Wallkill River NWR to see if the Short-eared Owls were flying. The owls were up early and putting on a show. I took some photos and I would guess that while I was there, 7 or 8 owls were up flying, all very close to the viewing platform. There were also many Northern Harriers present, I counted at least 8 which is the most I’ve had out there in a while.<\/p>\n

\"Short-eared<\/a>
Short-eared Owl at Wallkill River NWR, 2\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SEOW<\/a>
SEOW in a nice sunset light. Wallkill River NWR, 2\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Here's<\/a>
Here’s the top photo with less of a crop – showing 12 Lapland Longspurs in one shot. Pine Island NY, 2\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had an awesome evening of birding today after work. I headed to the Pine Island area, as I have for the last three evenings; it has been very active with good numbers of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings being seen. Today, my travels were rewarded with quite the treat- at least 12 LAPLAND LONGSPURS … Continue reading “LAPLAND LONGSPURS!!!”<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-BF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}