{"id":4430,"date":"2015-05-17T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2015-05-17T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:59:57","slug":"a-serious-case-of-pfbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4430","title":{"rendered":"A Serious Case of PFBS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Blue-winged Warbler at Sterling Forest State Park, Ironwood Road, 5\/16\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since my return from Florida I have gotten out and done a lot of local birding whereI have seen and heard many birds, yet it has not felt overly\u00a0fulfilling. I was thinking about it today and that’s when I realized that I am not well; I am suffering from a case of Post Florida Birding Syndrome.<\/strong> A while back, Linda Scrima warned me that this would happen. Who would have guessed that\u00a0it would\u00a0difficult to\u00a0transition from taking super close-up photos of multiple life birds every\u00a0day to\u00a0trying to locate\u00a0the smallest of birds among the leaves in the highest treetops?<\/p>\n

The good news is that I think I’ve found a remedy: \u00a0I’m thinking back on all the amazing first-of-the-year birds that I’ve had in the eight days since I’ve been back. The list is 50 species long just for Orange County! What better indication is there of all the great birding that is going on right now? And the Mearns Bird Club had their BREAK 100 event this weekend; every team but one had over 100 species in 24 hours! How awesome is that? Additionallhy, while they were not Florida-close, I did manage to get some decent photos during the week. It makes me think about what\u00a0a great pastime birding is, how there are amazing birds at every turn and that you never know what the next big thing will be.<\/p>\n

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~Scarlet Tanager at Pochuck Mountain State Forest, 5\/17\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An American Redstart sings his heart out at Pochuck Mountain State Forest, 5\/16\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I got my lifer GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER\u00a0on Thursday with no photos. When I went back on Saturday I managed to get at least a usable shot. Sterling Forest State Park, Ironwood Drive 5\/16\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those that are interested, these are the new birds added to my Orange County List in the last eight days:<\/p>\n

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Since my return from Florida I have gotten out and done a lot of local birding whereI have seen and heard many birds, yet it has not felt overly\u00a0fulfilling. I was thinking about it today and that’s when I realized that I am not well; I am suffering from a case of Post Florida Birding … Continue reading “A Serious Case of PFBS”<\/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":[6,24,18,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-pochuck-mountain","category-songbirds","category-sterlforest","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-19s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}