{"id":4875,"date":"2015-08-29T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2015-08-29T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T00:33:23","slug":"good-birding-at-the-liberty-loop-82915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding at the Liberty Loop, 8\/29\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Northern Parula perches briefly on the west side of the Liberty Loop, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUICK POST:<\/strong> I had a birdy visit\u00a0this morning to\u00a0the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Loop Trail. The cool weather made for a pleasant walk and the clear skies helped with some nice light for photos. Birds are certainly on the move and I did pretty well with warblers (for me!) on the west side of the loop. Shorebird numbers seemed up to me, with a good number found\u00a0on the west side of the loop (in addition to the back pond). My\u00a0best shorebird was a\u00a0single juvenile Semipalmated Plover<\/strong> located in the back pond. All in all, a good morning of birding with over 50 species seen or heard. I’ve included my species list at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n

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~This was a shoot first and ask questions later situation. When I got home I figured out that this was a Nashville Warbler, Liberty Loop at Wallkill River NWR, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I had several Blue-gray Gnatcatchers while walking the loop today. Walkill River NWR, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This is a nice bird that I wish I’d gotten a better shot of. Magnolia Warbler on the Liberty Loop Trail, Wallkill River NWR, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I got some nice looks at several Yellow Warblers this morning. Wallkill River NWR, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~With all the small birds in this post, I couldn’t resist posting this Great Egret flyover. Walkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I can’t resist these wrens – they are numerous at the refuge right now and I keep taking pics! House Wren at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 8\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mute Swan
\nWood Duck
\nMallard
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nGreat Egret
\nGreen Heron
\nBlack-crowned Night-Heron
\nTurkey Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nRed-shouldered Hawk
\nVirginia Rail
\nSora
\nSemipalmated Plover<\/strong>
\nKilldeer<\/strong>
\nGreater Yellowlegs<\/strong>
\nLesser Yellowlegs<\/strong>
\nSolitary Sandpiper<\/strong>
\nSpotted Sandpiper<\/strong>
\nSemipalmated Sand.<\/strong>
\nLeast Sandpiper<\/strong>
\nMourning Dove
\nRuby-throated Hummingbird
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nPileated Woodpecker
\nEastern Wood Pewee
\nEastern Phoebe
\nGreat Crested Flycatcher
\nRed-eyed Vireo
\nAmerican Crow
\nTree Swallow
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch
\nHouse Wren
\nBlue-gray Gnatcatcher
\nVeery
\nGray Catbird
\nEuropean Starling
\nCedar Waxwing
\nNashville Warbler<\/strong>
\nNorthern Parula<\/strong>
\nYellow Warbler<\/strong>
\nChestnut-sided Warbler<\/strong>
\nBlack-throated Green W.<\/strong>
\nAmerican Redstart<\/strong>
\nCommon Yellowthroat<\/strong>
\nMagnolia Warbler<\/strong>
\nSong Sparrow
\nSwamp Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nRose-breasted Grosbeak
\nIndigo Bunting
\nBobolink
\nHouse Finch
\nAmerican Goldfinch<\/p>\n

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QUICK POST: I had a birdy visit\u00a0this morning to\u00a0the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Loop Trail. The cool weather made for a pleasant walk and the clear skies helped with some nice light for photos. Birds are certainly on the move and I did pretty well with warblers (for me!) on the west side … Continue reading “Good Birding at the Liberty Loop, 8\/29\/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_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":[6,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-sussexcounty","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1gD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}