{"id":3839,"date":"2015-01-17T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2015-01-17T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:51:12","slug":"saturday-11715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3839","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 1\/17\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Northern Harrier cruises by my blind, Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The big news this week was\u00a0the eBird report of a\u00a0Snowy Owl at the Liberty Marsh in Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday 1\/14\/15. I, of course, spent Thursday and Friday evenings after work going for the bird, but with no luck.\u00a0I left the house this morning with the Snowy Owl being the most important bird on my mind.\u00a0I did some running around in the Black Dirt and even followed a lead that took me to Chester, NY but had no luck with the Snowy. The Chester bird\u00a0was likely a\u00a0leucistic Red-tailed Hawk; I saw photos from the couple that had given me the lead, and I got a very distant look at the bird through my scope. I would like to get back there to get a better look one of these days.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon I decide to just try for some photos, so I headed to the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR. The north blind that is furthest out was free, so I spent the afternoon shooting raptors. I love spending time in the blinds out there; you can get such great looks at the birds.<\/p>\n

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~This one made me happy. Rough-legged Hawk in the Black Dirt, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Adult Bald Eagle in the Black Dirt, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I was sitting in the blind thinking that it would be nice if a Red-tailed Hawk would fly towards me rather than away. Moments later this bird flew in. Red-tailed Hawk at Shawankgunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~The harriers were pretty active today at the grasslands. Northern Harrier at the Shawangunk Grasslands, 1\/17\/15~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Northern Harrier at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I was happy with how this photo turned out. Northern Harrier just before sunset at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~The Short-eared Owls got up pretty early today, just after 4:00 pm. None came close enough to my blind for photos while the light was still good. I took this one just as I was preparing to head back to the car. Short-eared Owl at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A deer checks things out at the Shawangunk Grasslands, 1\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big news this week was\u00a0the eBird report of a\u00a0Snowy Owl at the Liberty Marsh in Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday 1\/14\/15. I, of course, spent Thursday and Friday evenings after work going for the bird, but with no luck.\u00a0I left the house this morning with the Snowy Owl being the most important … Continue reading “Saturday 1\/17\/15”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[23,6,19,12,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors","category-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-ZV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","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=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}