{"id":4090,"date":"2015-02-28T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2015-03-01T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:40:27","slug":"good-birding-in-westchester-and-rockland-counties-22815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding in Westchester and Rockland Counties, 2\/28\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~Another one of my favorites! Long-tailed Duck at Piermont Pier Rockland County NY, 2\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the best things that happened while we were there, however, was running into a couple of birders that had recently been to Piermont Pier<\/a>. Neither Karen nor I had ever been there, so we were intrigued. They showed us good photos on their cameras of Long-tailed Ducks and mentioned seeing Canvasback, Common Goldeneye, and Ruddy Ducks.<\/p>\n

After stopping for a sandwich for lunch, we headed out to find Piermont Pier, which is a great location.\u00a0The pier, which stretches about a mile into the Hudson River, was\u00a0built in the 19th century to accommodate river traffic and used during World War II as an embarkation point for troops heading to Europe. It’s a nice walk to get to the end of the pier, where\u00a0we got great looks at a single Long-tailed Duck<\/strong> as well as many Canvasback<\/strong> and Common Goldeneye.<\/strong> We did not locate any Ruddy Ducks but we did see three Bald Eagles riding the ice floes on the far side of the Hudson River, and with the help of a local birder named Drew, we were able to see a female Peregrine Falcon<\/strong> in its nesting box on the Tappan Zee Bridge. We also added 5 species to our list for the day, bringing our total to 41.<\/p>\n

What a super day of birding! I would recommend either of these locations to anyone who is suffering from cabin fever and would like to see some good birds.<\/p>\n

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~Piermont Pier provided very good looks at Canvasback, 2\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I thought these female Canvasbacks were just beautiful, I love the color of their head! Piermont Pier, 2\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I haven’t posted a sparrow photo in ages. This White-throated Sparrow was at the feeders next to the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary visitor center, 2\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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To me this photo looks altered – I didn’t realize at the time that there was a thin layer of something oily where this drake American was hanging out. Edith G Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 2\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Click on photos to enlarge* One of the best things that happened while we were there, however, was running into a couple of birders that had recently been to Piermont Pier. Neither Karen nor I had ever been there, so we were intrigued. They showed us good photos on their cameras of Long-tailed Ducks and … Continue reading “Good Birding in Westchester and Rockland Counties, 2\/28\/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_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":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-13Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}