{"id":3351,"date":"2014-10-12T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T22:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2014-10-12T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T22:33:54","slug":"fall-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"Fall Sparrows 10\/12\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"White-crowned<\/a>
White-crowned Sparrow on Haven Road at the Bashakill WMA, 10\/12\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got out a fair amount this weekend, and sparrows seemed to be everywhere. The hottest spot for me\u00a0was definitely Winding Waters Trail at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, which I visited three times and where I totaled 8 different sparrows:<\/p>\n

Chipping Sparrow
\nField Sparrow
\nSavannah Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nLincoln\u2019s Sparrow
\nSwamp Sparrow
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nWhite-crowned Sparrow<\/p>\n

I am, of course, still struggling with my sparrow identifications; at times I felt confident and capable and at other times I felt clueless. Here are my photos from the weekend – I am confident with\u00a0all my IDs with a couple of exceptions which I have noted in the captions. Also noteworthy, I had my first Dark-eyed Juncos of the season on Saturday morning at Cascade Lake (which was also loaded with Ruby-crowned Kinglets – 15+).<\/p>\n

\"Savannah<\/a>
Savannah Sparrow at Winding Waters Trail at the Wallkill River NWR, 10\/11\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This bird has me a little stumped – I\u00a0am\u00a0thinking it is a hatch year Swamp Sparrow. Any thoughts on this bird would be appreciated. This was taken Winding Waters Trail at the Wallkill River NWR, 10\/10\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"It<\/a>
It was great to see several Field Sparrows at Winding Waters Trail at the Wallkill River NWR, 10\/10\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This photo is not very representative of how it looked when I saw this bird. This was taken on Friday night and it was nearly dark out. I had my ISO cranked up to 3200 and somehow the photo is not too noisy. White-throated Sparrow,Winding Waters Trail at the Wallkill River NWR, 10\/10\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"THIS,<\/a>
THIS, I believe is a Lincoln’s Sparrow. I did not ID it as such in the field, but looking at the photos I am thinking Lincoln’s. Again, any thoughts on this bird please comment! Taken at Winding Waters Trail at the Wallkill River NWR, 10\/10\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got out a fair amount this weekend, and sparrows seemed to be everywhere. The hottest spot for me\u00a0was definitely Winding Waters Trail at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, which I visited three times and where I totaled 8 different sparrows: Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln\u2019s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow … Continue reading “Fall Sparrows 10\/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_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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-S3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}