{"id":4798,"date":"2015-08-09T18:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2015-08-09T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:45:33","slug":"sullivan-county-white-rumped-sandpiper-8915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4798","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan County WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER!, 8\/9\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~White-rumped Sandpiper at Morningside Park in Sulllivan County, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was pretty darn happy this morning when I received a text from John Haas, alerting me that he had located a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER<\/strong> at Morningside Park in Sullivan County (click here <\/a>to read John’s account of locating the bird).<\/p>\n

I finished what I was doing and then headed home. Yes home… to get my kayak. Morningside Park offers a rare opportunity in our area to see shorebirds up close, and the key is to bird by kayak. I followed John’s directions and located the bird almost immediately and enjoyed taking many photos. \u00a0It was pretty exciting for me to get such\u00a0a\u00a0good shorebird, hopefully it is the first of many for this season. And, what a good looking bird; it was super to get such good looks at it. There were also several Least Sandpipers present, so I got some shots of them as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve also included some photos from the week, most are from the Liberty Loop, where I have been spending most of my birding time lately.<\/p>\n

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~I love the crossing primaries as seen in this photo of the bird. White-rumped Sandpiper at Morningside Park, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One more good look at the White-rumped Sandpiper as it feeds on one of the islands located in the lake at Morningside Park in Sullivan County, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Least Sandpiper coming this way! Morningside Park, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~It’s hard to believe how very small these birds are when you get this close to them – they are just little peanuts! Least Sandpiper at Morningside Park in Sullivan County, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This is just a small portion of the crowd of Great Egrets in front of the viewing platform at the Liberty Loop this morning, 8\/9\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Ha ha! Finally got a shot of a Marsh Wren! Liberty Loop at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 8\/9\/115.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Great Blue Heron takes a short flight at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop, 8\/4\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Scarlett Tanager on the west side of the Liberty Loop, 8\/8\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was pretty darn happy this morning when I received a text from John Haas, alerting me that he had located a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER at Morningside Park in Sullivan County (click here to read John’s account of locating the bird). I finished what I was doing and then headed home. Yes home… to get my … Continue reading “Sullivan County WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER!, 8\/9\/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":[19,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-sullivancounty","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1fo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","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=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}