{"id":4262,"date":"2015-04-12T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:03:36","slug":"weekend-wrap-up-41215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wrap-up 4\/12\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on photos to enlarge.*<\/p>\n

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~A sweet looking Ruddy Duck at Piermont Pier, 4\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The highlight of the weekend was, of course, the Crested Caracara<\/a> in Montgomery, which I saw Saturday\u00a0afternoon (I’ve received reports that this bird continued at the same location on Sunday 4\/12). While looking for the caracara on Saturday,\u00a0I came across many raptors and I was lucky enough to get a decent photo of a couple\u00a0American Kestrels.\u00a0<\/strong>Later that\u00a0evening, Tricia and I went to Piermont, NY to go out for her birthday dinner. We did not have tons of time, but we made a quick stop at Piermont Pier where\u00a0we got very appropriately\u00a0lucky with the very blue-billed Ruddy Duck<\/strong> at the top of this post (appropriate since Ruddies are Tricia’s favorite, the blue bill was the icing on the cake!).<\/p>\n

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~American Kestrel on River Road in Montgomery, NY 4\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Sunday morning, I joined Karen Miller and Sharon Dewey Scavatto (who drove in\u00a0that morning\u00a0from Massachusetts) and we birded the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area. It started out on the chilly\u00a0side with enough of a cold breeze to make my hands uncomfortable as we birded Haven Road first thing. Highlights at Haven Road included: 1 Common Goldeneye<\/strong>, 2 Northern Shoveler<\/strong> (first ones at the Bash this year), and 4 Blue-winged Teal <\/strong>(my first of the year).\u00a0From there, we headed over to the Nature Trail, hoping for the Red-necked Grebe and the Common Loon that had been seen there. We struck out with the RNGR, but we did get brief but good looks at the Common Loon<\/strong>. We also heard a Barred Owl f<\/strong>rom across the Bash, and I got my first Golden Crowned Kinglets<\/strong> of the year. Our next stop was the Deli Fields where I got my FOY Field Sparrows.<\/strong>\u00a0Our final stop was at the Main Boat Launch to go for the Horned Grebes<\/strong> that have been there. We got very good scope views in perfect light of 4 HOGRs. We walked part of the Birch Trail and I got my FOY Swamp Sparrows<\/strong>. By my record we had 44 birds for the day, I’ll put the list at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n

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~Yet another one of my favorites, it was great to see my first Blue-winged Teals of the year, Haven Road at the Bashakill WMA, 4\/12\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bashakill State WMA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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~I’m not sure why American Kestrels love to perch on wires so often. This one was located on East Searsville Road in Montgomery, 4\/11\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nWood Duck
\nAmerican Wigeon
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nMallard
\nBlue-winged Teal
\nNorthern Shoveler
\nGreen-winged Teal
\nRing-necked Duck
\nBufflehead
\nCommon Goldeneye
\nHooded Merganser
\nCommon Merganser
\nCommon Loon
\nPied-billed Grebe
\nHorned Grebe
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nOsprey
\nBald Eagle
\nRed-shouldered Hawk
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nRing-billed Gull
\nRock Pigeon
\nMourning Dove
\nEastern Screech-Owl
\nBarred Owl
\nBelted Kingfisher
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nNorthern Flicker
\nEastern Phoebe
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nTree Swallow
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nGolden-crowned Kinglet
\nEastern Bluebird
\nAmerican Robin
\nField Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nSwamp Sparrow
\nRed-winged Blackbird
\nCommon Grackle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Click on photos to enlarge.* The highlight of the weekend was, of course, the Crested Caracara in Montgomery, which I saw Saturday\u00a0afternoon (I’ve received reports that this bird continued at the same location on Sunday 4\/12). While looking for the caracara on Saturday,\u00a0I came across many raptors and I was lucky enough to get a … Continue reading “Weekend Wrap-up 4\/12\/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_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":[19,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-16K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}