{"id":3137,"date":"2014-08-14T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2014-08-14T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T01:05:25","slug":"liberty-loop-glossy-ibis-81414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Loop Glossy Ibis &#8211; 8\/14\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3138\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3138\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1845-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"One of three GLOSSY IBIS at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 8\/14\/14.\" width=\"584\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1845-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1845-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1845.jpg 1119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of three GLOSSY IBIS at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 8\/14\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The back pond at the Liberty Loop is certainly the local birding hotspot right now. Only one day after having a Willet there, today there were three <strong>GLOSSY IBIS<\/strong> present.\u00a0The birds were in close, providing super looks and good photo ops. Linda Scrima joined me after a little while and we really enjoyed watching and photographing the birds as they fed nearly non-stop. Gorgeous and exciting birds! Here are some more shots:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3139\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3139\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2087-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"This bird took a very thorough bath and then spent some time trying to dry off. Glossy Ibis at Wallkill River NWR - Liberty Loop, 8\/14\/14.\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2087-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2087-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2087-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This bird took a very thorough bath and then spent some time trying to dry off. Glossy Ibis at Wallkill River NWR &#8211; Liberty Loop, 8\/14\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3140\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3140\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1499-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The birds were feeding heavily. From what I could tell, they were eating small frogs and I think in this photo it's a large beetle. \" width=\"584\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1499-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1499-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1499.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The birds were feeding heavily. From what I could tell, they were eating small frogs and I think in this photo it&#8217;s a large beetle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3141\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3141\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"All three Glossy Ibis at the Liberty Loop today, 8\/14\/14.\" width=\"584\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815-485x300.jpg 485w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1815.jpg 1994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All three Glossy Ibis at the Liberty Loop today, 8\/14\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back pond at the Liberty Loop is certainly the local birding hotspot right now. Only one day after having a Willet there, today there were three GLOSSY IBIS present.\u00a0The birds were in close, providing super looks and good photo ops. Linda Scrima joined me after a little while and we really enjoyed watching and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberty Loop Glossy Ibis &#8211; 8\/14\/14&#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":[13,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sussexcounty","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-OB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","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=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}