{"id":4682,"date":"2015-06-30T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:15:02","slug":"a-couple-more-orange-county-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4682","title":{"rendered":"A Couple More Orange County Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4683\" style=\"width: 1426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1426\" height=\"1783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4509-1000x1250.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Female Bobolink at Knapp&#8217;s View in Chester, NY 6\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently, I was looking over my 2015 list of Orange County birds and noticed it was lacking a couple of birds that figured I would have seen in the county before now &#8211; <strong>Bobolink\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Eastern Meadowlark.<\/strong> With that in mind, Monday after work I headed over to Knapp&#8217;s View in the town of Chester, a spot where I have never birded but heard both birds could be seen. I did very well with Bobolinks, with plenty being seen and they were close enough for some decent photos. I walked the mowed trails, but did not have any luck with Eastern Meadowlarks, so I decided to head Upper Wisner Road in Warwick where I&#8217;ve seen them in the past. Not long after my arrival, as I scanned I found a single meadowlark perched in the distance. Too far for photos, but still nice to get the bird. Before leaving, I had a nice photo opportunity with a Northern Mockingbird, a bird that I have not photographed in quite some time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4684\" style=\"width: 1266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4684\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1266\" height=\"1900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625.jpg 1266w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4625-1000x1501.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~And a male Bobolink strikes a pose with some nice colors in the background. Knapp&#8217;s View 6\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4685\" style=\"width: 1625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4685\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1625\" height=\"2032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680.jpg 1625w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4680-1000x1250.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Northern Mockingbird off Upper Wisner Road in Warwick, NY 6\/29\/15. Barbed wire is one of the man-made elements that I don&#8217;t mind in a bird photo for some reason.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4686\" style=\"width: 3291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4686\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"3291\" height=\"2350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706.jpg 3291w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_4706-1000x714.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Northern Mockingbird taking off, Upper Wisner Road in Warwick NY, 6\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was looking over my 2015 list of Orange County birds and noticed it was lacking a couple of birds that figured I would have seen in the county before now &#8211; Bobolink\u00a0and Eastern Meadowlark. With that in mind, Monday after work I headed over to Knapp&#8217;s View in the town of Chester, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Couple More Orange County Birds&#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_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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","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-1dw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","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=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}