{"id":4900,"date":"2015-09-01T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:26:21","slug":"liberty-loop-shorebirds-9115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Loop Shorebirds, 9\/1\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4901\" style=\"width: 1054px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4901\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1054\" height=\"1318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4600-1000x1250.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~I only had a single Lesser Yellowlegs at the back pond of the Liberty Loop at Wallkill River NWR today, 9\/1\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>QUICK POST:<\/strong> I hope folks are not sick of shorebirds &#8211; I am obsessed with them. I made it out to\u00a0Liberty Loop back pond at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge tonight looking for shorebirds. I entered from the south via Owens Station Road, so I did not check the west side of the loop for shorebirds. The shorebird highlight of the afternoon was getting a\u00a0pretty good look at one of the 5 Wilson&#8217;s Snipe that I had for the day. Here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<p>Killdeer 15<br \/>\nLesser Yellowlegs 1<br \/>\nSolitary Sandpiper 1<br \/>\nLeast Sandpiper 40<br \/>\n<strong>Pectoral Sandpiper 7<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wilson\u2019s Snipe 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4902\" style=\"width: 2335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4902\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"2335\" height=\"1666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585.jpg 2335w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4585-1000x713.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~This Northern Harrier was causing havoc in the back pond, making 4 passes over the compound and shuffling the shorebird deck each time it did. Walkill River NWR, 9\/1\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4903\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4903\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4445-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4445-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4445-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4445.jpg 931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~This was a nice look at a Wilson&#8217;s Snipe, although the photos just turned out so-so. Back pond at the Liberty Loop, 9\/1\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK POST: I hope folks are not sick of shorebirds &#8211; I am obsessed with them. I made it out to\u00a0Liberty Loop back pond at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge tonight looking for shorebirds. I entered from the south via Owens Station Road, so I did not check the west side of the loop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberty Loop Shorebirds, 9\/1\/15&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sussexcounty","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1h2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","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=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}