{"id":3712,"date":"2014-12-29T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:18:10","slug":"orange-county-iceland-gull-122914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Iceland Gull, 12\/29\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3713\" style=\"width: 2287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3713\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730.jpg\" alt=\"Iceland Gull with Herring Gulls, Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/29\/14.\" width=\"2287\" height=\"1634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730.jpg 2287w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MG_4730-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iceland Gull with Herring Gulls, Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/29\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided to head up to Newburgh, NY after work tonight to look for gulls. Ken McDermott had reported an Iceland Gull there a week or so ago, so I figured I would try my luck. I tried first from where the ferry goes out. I located a distant floating\u00a0&#8220;white winged gull&#8221; almost immediately, but soon lost the bird among all the other gulls while trying to switch between scope and camera. Luckily, I was able to get the above shot from that location. \u00a0The gulls were also\u00a0floating\u00a0steadily north on the Hudson River and out of my view. I jumped in my car and moved\u00a0to the parking lot near what used to be Torches Restaurant. I relocated the bird from that position, but it was getting dark and the bird was even further out. I gave Ken McDermott a call and he walked me through the ID: a white winged gull that is smaller than a Herring Gull but larger than a Ring-billed. The nearly all black bill indicates that this is likely a first winter bird. Thanks Ken for your help, it is greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2245\" style=\"width: 3136px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2245\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866.jpg\" alt=\"This Iceland Gull was probably my favorite bird of the day. I think it is a very elegant looking gull. The New Jersey Crew was having a discussion about this bird, wondering if it could possibly be a hybrid. The reason for this was that it was very close in size to the Herring Gulls it was found with. According to The Crossley ID Guide, the Iceland is 22&quot; as compared to the Herring Gull at 25&quot;. The Iceland Gull was certainly smaller, just not noticeably. \" width=\"3136\" height=\"2240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866.jpg 3136w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3866-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s a better look at an Iceland Gull. I photographed this bird in January of this year at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to head up to Newburgh, NY after work tonight to look for gulls. Ken McDermott had reported an Iceland Gull there a week or so ago, so I figured I would try my luck. I tried first from where the ferry goes out. I located a distant floating\u00a0&#8220;white winged gull&#8221; almost immediately, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Iceland Gull, 12\/29\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-XS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}