{"id":3952,"date":"2015-02-04T21:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:42:04","slug":"a-cute-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"A Cute Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954\" style=\"width: 1837px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3954\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1837\" height=\"1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938.jpg 1837w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_9938-1000x667.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Short-eared Owl love at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 2\/3\/15. Valentine&#8217;s Day is just around the corner&#8230;~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday evening I was on Missionland Road, searching for the <strong>nearly two dozen Lapland Longspurs<\/strong> seen there earlier in the day by both Rob Stone and Ken McDermott (21 and 19 respectively), when I received a call from Ken. There were two Short-eared Owls perched together north of Oil City Road at Liberty Marsh. I headed over and the birds were still on their perch. It was a distant look and this photo is heavily cropped, but still pretty darn cute. Thanks to Ken for the call and hopefully I will get back out to try for the<strong> LALOs<\/strong> on another evening this week.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the Newburgh Waterfront this evening to try for gulls; I had a report from Curt McDermott on Sunday of a Glaucous Gull. Gulls were plentiful, but I unfortunately was unable to locate anything other than Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, and Great Black-backed Gulls. I did have three Bald Eagles on the ice floes &#8211; two adults and one immature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday evening I was on Missionland Road, searching for the nearly two dozen Lapland Longspurs seen there earlier in the day by both Rob Stone and Ken McDermott (21 and 19 respectively), when I received a call from Ken. There were two Short-eared Owls perched together north of Oil City Road at Liberty Marsh. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Cute Couple&#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":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-11K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}