{"id":4761,"date":"2015-07-26T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2015-07-26T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T20:24:11","slug":"weekend-wrap-up-72615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wrap-up, 7\/26\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Great Blue Heron at Clark Pond, New Windsor NY 7\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got out both Saturday and Sunday mornings, mostly looking for shorebirds. First thing Saturday, thanks to Bruce Nott, I went to a new spot for me – it’s a small pond near Stewart Airport that is now a mud flat. Shorebirds present included Killdeer, Least Sandpipers, and a single Lesser Yellowlegs. There were many Great Blue Herons and a couple of Green Herons also present. It looks like a spot with some good potential, so I will keep checking back. Next I went to Lake Washington where I struck out with shorebirds – a quick stop yielded only a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron. Bruce saw a Great Egret and a Black-crowned Night-Heron out there earlier in the week. My final stop was a total bust – I wanted to check the mud flats on the Hudson River just north of\u00a0Cornwall-On-Hudson. The problem is that there is no real good spot to view that area, and there are “No Parking” signs everywhere. I eventually got frustrated with the situation and bailed on it.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning I went back to the usual – I walked the Liberty Loop. It was a birdy morning where I had over 40 species. Shorebirds in the back pond remained basically the same as my last shorebird report<\/a>, with the addition of a second Pectoral Sandpiper, and my first 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS<\/strong> of the season. Waders were numerous, particularly Great Egrets (8), and Great Blue Herons (12). I also saw several Green Herons and managed a distant photo of one.<\/p>\n

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~Great Egret in flight at the Liberty Loop, 7\/26\/15. This crop doesn’t show very well on the blog – click on the photo to have a better look.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Least Sandpiper in the back pond of the Liberty Loop, 7\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Great Blue Heron in flight at Clark Pond in New Windsor, NY 7\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I’m trying to mix it up with all the Lesser Yellowlegs photos – half submerged LEYE at the Liberty Loop, 7\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Green Heron in the ditch alongside the back pond at the Liberty Loop, 7\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An unidentified flycatcher on the west side of the Liberty Loop, 7\/26\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got out both Saturday and Sunday mornings, mostly looking for shorebirds. First thing Saturday, thanks to Bruce Nott, I went to a new spot for me – it’s a small pond near Stewart Airport that is now a mud flat. Shorebirds present included Killdeer, Least Sandpipers, and a single Lesser Yellowlegs. There were many … Continue reading “Weekend Wrap-up, 7\/26\/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":[6,13,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-sussexcounty","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1eN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","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=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}