{"id":2598,"date":"2014-04-12T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2014-04-12T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T02:18:06","slug":"saturday-birding-bonanza-41214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Birding Bonanza 4\/12\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Horned Grebe at Glenmere Lake, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glenmere Lake, 8:00 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was hoping that some additional waterfowl might have been grounded by the overnight rain. This proved not to be the case, but there was still a decent showing of waterfowl, including: \u00a0Canada Goose (15), Lesser Scaup (9), Bufflehead (6), Wood Duck (4), Common Loon (1), Double-crested Cormorant (1), and the highlight of the stop, (6) Horned Grebes, two of which swam right up to me while I was looking through my scope. I was shocked because while Glenmere Lake is a great spot for birds, it is typically not very good for photos. I was pleased to have those grebes so close.<\/p>\n

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Pine Warbler, Glenmere Lake 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other birds of note at the lake included a couple of Pine Warblers, my first of the year Palm Warbler, and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.<\/p>\n

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A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker works the shady side of a tree. I never did get a shot of the bird in the sun. \u00a0Glenmere Lake, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge – Liberty Loop, 9:45am<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I found a half dozen Turkey Vultures enjoying some roadkill on Pumpkin Swamp road, on my way to Wallkill River NWR, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I walked the Liberty Loop next, with my main goal to see if the Eurasian Wigeon was still present. I was unable to locate the bird, or any wigeon at all, so I am thinking that maybe these birds have moved on. The wigeon may have moved on, but there were still many waterfowl present:<\/p>\n

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Canada Goose<\/div>\n
Snow Goose
\nWood Duck
\nMallard<\/div>\n
Blue-winged Teal<\/div>\n
Northern Shoveler<\/div>\n
Northern Pintail
\nGreen-winged Teal
\nRing-necked Duck<\/div>\n
Mute Swan<\/div>\n
American Coot<\/span><\/div>\n
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Peregrine Falcon at Wallkill River NWR, 4\/12\/14.
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Two Snow Geese were a pleasant surprise, as was my first Peregrine Falcon of the year. I finally located a Peregrine (it had been ages!) and the bird was not only severely backlit, but it had the fullest crop I’ve ever seen!<\/p>\n

Bashakill Wildlife Management Area, 3:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Osprey<\/a>
Osprey at the Bashakill, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent the afternoon at Haven Road in the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area. I ran into a birder from New York City, Lee, and we enjoy some really good birds. Many raptors were seen, some local and others that seemed to be moving through. We had: Turkey Vulture (12), Bald Eagle (1), Osprey (1), Red-tailed Hawk (4), Red-shouldered Hawk (1), Peregrine Falcon (1), and flying very high overhead, I believe that I had a pair of Broad-winged Hawks.<\/p>\n

Waterfowl numbers were way down from last week when I was there. Most migrants seemed to have moved on with the exception of small flock of Ring-necked Ducks. A Pied-billed Grebe was seen on the north side of Haven Road:<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe seen from Haven Road at the Bashakill, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, 6:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I had a single Short-eared Owl at the grasslands tonight, 4\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My final stop of the day was the Shawangunk Grasslands. I recently looked back at my posts from last April and I did pretty well with a pair of American Kestrels during the first week of April last year. I didn’t have any good photo ops, but I did have 4 kestrels out there. It looks like two pairs using the nesting boxes at the refuge. I also had 3 Northern Harriers, one Short-eared Owl, and my first of the year Eastern Meadowlarks.<\/p>\n

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Glenmere Lake, 8:00 am I was hoping that some additional waterfowl might have been grounded by the overnight rain. This proved not to be the case, but there was still a decent showing of waterfowl, including: \u00a0Canada Goose (15), Lesser Scaup (9), Bufflehead (6), Wood Duck (4), Common Loon (1), Double-crested Cormorant (1), and the … Continue reading “Saturday Birding Bonanza 4\/12\/14”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-FU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}