{"id":452,"date":"2012-08-17T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-08-17T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:52:46","slug":"dennings-point-state-park-heron-triple-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Dennings Point State Park &#8211; Heron Triple Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-455\" title=\"_MG_4245\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4245-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4245-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4245-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4245.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Black-Crowned Night-heron out during the day at Dennings Point in Beacon NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday evening I was supposed to meet Karen Miller at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR.\u00a0 I was running early, so I decided to head over to Dennings Point State Park in Beacon NY. I had birded there one other time &#8211; it was a really nice hike but I did not see or hear very many birds. I figured I would give it another shot and it really paid off. About ten minutes into the hike I reached the first view of the water. As I got close to the shore, I flushed three Green Herons by tripping on a root! I looked out over the water and a along the shore and saw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 <strong>Green Herons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>3 <strong>Black-Crowned Night-herons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2 <strong>Great Blue Herons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>4 Great Egrets<\/li>\n<li>Canada Geese<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gulls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow! What a great start! I talked to Karen and we decided to save the Shawangunk Grasslands for another day, she would join me at Dennings Point instead. It was a great day of birding! I had 29 species for the day and I got many good looks at both the Green Herons and Black-Crowned Night-herons. At one point, at a point in the trail a little deeper in the woods, we had close to ten species of song birds in just a few minutes. This was Karen&#8217;s highlight of the day. Here&#8217;s some photos from the day:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-456\" title=\"_MG_4231\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4231-734x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4231-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4231-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4231.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of Green Herons ignore each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-462\" title=\"_MG_4255\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551-421x300.jpg 421w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42551.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Great Blue Heron in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-458\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-458\" title=\"_MG_4234\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42341-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42341-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42341-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_42341-419x300.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I took this photo through the branches. A young Black-Crowned Night-heron and a a Green Heron hang out together at Dennings Point in Beacon NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-459\" title=\"_MG_4247\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247-423x300.jpg 423w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MG_4247.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Blue Jay chased off two Green Herons and one Black-Crowned Night-heron. One Green Heron put up a fight, but the jay won in the end. To the victor go the spoils I guess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I was supposed to meet Karen Miller at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR.\u00a0 I was running early, so I decided to head over to Dennings Point State Park in Beacon NY. I had birded there one other time &#8211; it was a really nice hike but I did not see or hear very many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dennings Point State Park &#8211; Heron Triple Play&#8221;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-7i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}