{"id":3509,"date":"2014-11-22T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2014-11-22T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T23:24:02","slug":"saturdays-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just love these Horned Larks and I I was trying to get some more interesting photos of them today. I was trying to anticipate when the birds would interact like this. Black Dirt Region, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I birded in the black dirt this morning and didn’t have any out-of-the-ordinary sightings but the light was nice and I took a lot of photos, so I’m going with\u00a0basically a photo post.<\/p>\n

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It’s the Northern Harrier time of year. I didn’t have any terrific opportunities but I did take some distant shots. Black Dirt Region, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I love the light and the shape of this bird the streetlight and a truck in the\u00a0background….ugh. Northern Harrier in Pine Island, NY\u00a011\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I have this as a\u00a0first winter White-crowned Sparrow, at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This not a bird that I get many photos of for some reason. Northern Cardinal at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The highlight of the day was being able to spend some time with some Horned Larks in several locations in the black dirt. These two shots preceded the photo at the top of this post:<\/p>\n

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I love the dirt flying in this photo! Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gorgeous individual here, in my opinion. Horned Lark in the Black Dirt, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sweetness. Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a more typical look; Horned Lark in the Black Dirt, 11\/22\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I birded in the black dirt this morning and didn’t have any out-of-the-ordinary sightings but the light was nice and I took a lot of photos, so I’m going with\u00a0basically a photo post. The highlight of the day was being able to spend some time with some Horned Larks in several locations in the black … Continue reading “Saturday’s Shots”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-UB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","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=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}