{"id":2373,"date":"2014-02-19T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2014-02-19T22:13:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:13:03","slug":"a-pleasant-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"A Pleasant Evening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2374\" alt=\"A SEOW does a fly-by at the Wallkill River NWR, 2\/19\/14.\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7922-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7922-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7922-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7922-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SEOW does a fly-by at the Wallkill River NWR, 2\/19\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took advantage of the foggy, misty weather by having a peaceful evening watching the Short-eared Owls out at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. The parking lot, which has been filled most evenings lately, was practically empty. The owls were up early, and plenty of other raptors could be seen from the viewing platform, including numerous Red-tailed Hawks, a couple of Rough-legged Hawks, and a single male Northern Harrier. Also noteworthy were the seven Northern Cardinals flew into a bush near the entrance to the parking area. It started to rain after a little while, but that didn&#8217;t put damper a pleasant evening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2377\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2377\" alt=\"A pair of SEOWs perched in the distance at Wallkill River NWR, 2\/19\/14. \" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7900-731x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7900-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7900-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of SEOWs perched in the distance at Wallkill River NWR, 2\/19\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took advantage of the foggy, misty weather by having a peaceful evening watching the Short-eared Owls out at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. The parking lot, which has been filled most evenings lately, was practically empty. The owls were up early, and plenty of other raptors could be seen from the viewing platform, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Pleasant Evening&#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[6,12,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors","category-uncategorized","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Ch","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}