{"id":3557,"date":"2014-11-30T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T22:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2014-11-30T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T22:23:26","slug":"good-birding-in-orange-county-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding in Orange County (finally!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of a group of four Snow Buntings out in the black dirt today, 11\/30\/14.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUICK POST: <\/strong>Today\u00a0I finally got\u00a0some of the good winter birds that we expect to see in the\u00a0Black Dirt Region of Orange County. Highlights:<\/p>\n

(2) Rough-legged Hawks (one light morph and one dark)
\n(4) Snow Buntings
\n(3) LAPLAND LONGSPURS<\/strong>
\n(2) American Pipits
\n(many) Horned Larks<\/p>\n

It was also a good day for raptors with many\u00a0Northern Harriers and Red-tailed Hawks seen throughout the day. I also had a single American Kestrel and a single adult Bald Eagle. I had two large groups of Canada Geese but the only unusual bird that I could find among them looked to me like a domesticated goose.<\/p>\n

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Two Lapland Longspurs (far left) in a small flock of Horned Larks. Black Dirt Region, Orange County NY, 11\/30\/14. \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snow Bunting in the black dirt, 11\/30\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I seem to get an awful lot of over-exposed adult Bald Eagle photos. This one was just barely salvageable, and ultimately I kind of like the way it looks. This Bald Eagle caught me by surprise, flying pretty low over the black dirt, Orange County NY, 11\/30\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Horned Larks coming in for a landing. Black Dirt in Orange County NY, 11\/30\/14.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dos MODOs in the black dirt, 11\/30\/14. Still love these guys.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUICK POST: Today\u00a0I finally got\u00a0some of the good winter birds that we expect to see in the\u00a0Black Dirt Region of Orange County. Highlights: (2) Rough-legged Hawks (one light morph and one dark) (4) Snow Buntings (3) LAPLAND LONGSPURS (2) American Pipits (many) Horned Larks It was also a good day for raptors with many\u00a0Northern Harriers … Continue reading “Good Birding in Orange County (finally!)”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Vn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","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=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}