{"id":2689,"date":"2014-05-04T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:02:20","slug":"wallkill-river-nwr-winding-waters-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Wallkill River NWR – Winding Waters Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very cooperative American Redstart that we took many photos of. Wallkill River NWR, Winding Waters Trail, 5\/4\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was running a little bit early to\u00a0meet Karen Miller at the Winding Waters Trail, so I decided to make a quick stop at the Pine Island Turf Nursery. There was a good collection of shorebirds present, so I called Karen and she joined me there. We had three Bald Eagles, a Gadwall and did pretty well with the shorebirds, with 12 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 8 Lesser Yellowlegs, and a single Pectoral Sandpiper. Our intention was to go for warblers on this morning, so we did not linger and headed over\u00a0to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/a>
Yellow Warbler at Winding Waters Trail, 5\/4\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Karen<\/a>
Karen and I chased this House Wren around for a while, and I was finally able to get a shot that I like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In spite of the windy conditions, Winding Waters Trail was full of birds. The area to the right of the trail, for the first 500 yards or so,\u00a0is flooded and there are some Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs as well as Solitary Sandpipers there. As we walked the trail, we had plenty of birds to look at, and since I haven’t really gone for warblers year, I got several first of the season birds (FOS). Karen was very sharp all day and was finding many of the birds we saw. Karen headed home after we got back to the cars, and I went back to look at the shorebirds with my scope, and then went over to the viewing platform by the Liberty Loop and I walked out Liberty Lane, where the fields were flooded and I was hoping for more shorebirds. It was only somewhat productive; I had 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, and 3 Spotted Sandpipers. I ended the day with 45 species and 10 FOS birds. Here’s my list:<\/p>\n

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A female American Kestrel takes flight, Liberty Lane 5\/4\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nWood Duck
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nMallard
\nGreen-winged Teal
\nTurkey Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nBald Eagle
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nKilldeer
\nSpotted Sandpiper
\nSolitary Sandpiper
\nGreater Yellowlegs
\nLesser Yellowlegs (FOS)
\nMourning Dove
\nBelted Kingfisher
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nAmerican Kestrel
\nEastern Phoebe
\nEastern Kingbird (FOS)
\nWarbling Vireo (FOS)
\nAmerican Crow
\nCommon Raven<\/p>\n

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Palm Warbler at Winding Waters Trail, 5\/4\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tree Swallow
\nBarn Swallow
\nHouse Wren (FOS)
\nBlue-gray Gnatcatcher
\nRuby-crowned Kinglet
\nEastern Bluebird
\nAmerican Robin
\nGray Catbird (FOS)
\nEuropean Starling
\nLouisiana Waterthrush (FOS)
\nCommon Yellowthroat (FOS)
\nAmerican Redstart (FOS)
\nYellow Warbler (FOS)
\nPalm Warbler
\nYellow-rumped Warbler
\nEastern Towhee (FOS)
\nField Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nSwamp Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nRed-winged Blackbird
\nCommon Grackle<\/p>\n

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Tree Swallow on the Winding Waters Trail, 5\/4\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was running a little bit early to\u00a0meet Karen Miller at the Winding Waters Trail, so I decided to make a quick stop at the Pine Island Turf Nursery. There was a good collection of shorebirds present, so I called Karen and she joined me there. We had three Bald Eagles, a Gadwall and did … Continue reading “Wallkill River NWR – Winding Waters Trail”<\/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":[6,18,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds","category-uncategorized","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Hn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}