{"id":4373,"date":"2015-05-10T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2015-05-10T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:41:17","slug":"orange-county-state-parks-51015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"Orange County State Parks 5\/10\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~This crazy looking Eastern Towhee was one of many seen and heard at Goosepond Mountain State Park, 5\/10\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUICK POST:<\/strong> I hit two state parks that are close to home this morning, Sterling Forest State Park and Goosepond Mountain State Park.<\/p>\n

GOOSEPOND MOUNTAIN:<\/strong> I \u00a0got here very early this morning and had the place to myself, which was very enjoyable. I walked the trails there for probably 4 miles or so and saw or heard 38 species. \u00a0Highlights included: Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Blue-winged Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Eastern Towhee, Scarlet Tanager, Spotted Sandpiper,<\/strong> and hearing a Black-billed Cuckoo.<\/strong> I tried to wait out that bird, I heard it call 3 times, but never close by and I never got a look at the bird.<\/p>\n

STERLING FOREST STATE PARK:<\/strong> It was not the optimum time of day to go here after walking Goosepond for a while, but I figured I would give it a shot. I walked the power cut at the end of Ironwood Drive; I had a total of 20 species. Here’s a list of the more noteworthy birds: Prairie Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, American Redstart, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush,<\/strong> and Yellow-throated Vireo. I also had one unidentified warbler that sounded vaguely like the squeaky wheel of a Black-and-white Warbler to me, but when I caught a glimpse\u00a0of the bird and I thought I saw a flash of\u00a0yellow.<\/p>\n

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~Probably the bird of the day for me – Louisiana Waterthrush at Sterling Forest State Park, 5\/10\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An acrobatic Baltimore Oriole at Goosepond Mountain State Park, 5\/10\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Wood Thrush in a web at Goosepond Mountain State Park, 5\/10\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Blue-winged Warbler at Goosepond Mountain State Park, 5\/10\/15. I was on the lookout for Brewster’s Warblers (hybrid Blue-winged x Golden-winged) since I had them out there last year, but I did not see any today.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUICK POST: I hit two state parks that are close to home this morning, Sterling Forest State Park and Goosepond Mountain State Park. GOOSEPOND MOUNTAIN: I \u00a0got here very early this morning and had the place to myself, which was very enjoyable. I walked the trails there for probably 4 miles or so and saw … Continue reading “Orange County State Parks 5\/10\/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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-18x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}