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~Snow Bunting in the uh well, snow. Black Dirt Region, 2\/8\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past Sunday, I finally got my first Snow Buntings of the year. I know that folks have been seeing them throughout the black dirt region, but I somehow kept coming up empty. After Karen Miller and I\u00a0tried unsuccessfully for the\u00a0Ulster County Gyrfalcon in the morning, we decided to head back to the black dirt region to try for Snow Buntings. We did well, finding 6 in a flock of \u00a0approximately 75 Horned Larks.<\/p>\n

Then,\u00a0today after work I received a text from Linda Scrima who had a couple of Lapland Longspurs in the black dirt. I met her out there and took some photos\u00a0before heading over to the Wallkill River NWR Liberty Loop viewing platform, where it was relatively quiet. For the first time in a long while I did not see any\u00a0Northern Harriers. We did get good looks at a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk, one distant Turkey Vulture and several Red-tailed Hawks. It was getting pretty dark when the Short-eared Owls got up; I counted four of them.<\/p>\n

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~I’m not sure what was going on while taking these photos, all of them are soft. Snow Bunting in the Black Dirt, 2\/8\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Snow Bunting with a Horned Lark, Black Dirt, 2\/8\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I love these guys. Lapland Longspur with a Horned Lark in the Black Dirt, 2\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A nice look at the feet of the Lapland Longspur. Black Dirt, 2\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Larks and Longspurs in the snow piles. Black Dirt, 2\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Sunday, I finally got my first Snow Buntings of the year. I know that folks have been seeing them throughout the black dirt region, but I somehow kept coming up empty. After Karen Miller and I\u00a0tried unsuccessfully for the\u00a0Ulster County Gyrfalcon in the morning, we decided to head back to the black dirt … Continue reading “Longspurs, Larks, and Buntings”<\/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":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","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-12w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}