{"id":5105,"date":"2015-10-25T18:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T22:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2015-10-29T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:15:37","slug":"wow-super-shorebirds-at-6-12-station-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5105","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Super Shorebirds at 6 1\/2 Station Road!"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Updated on 10\/29\/15.**<\/strong><\/p>\n

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~Dunlin<\/strong> feeding at 6 1\/2 Station Road, Citgo Pond 10\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had an unproductive morning of birding today; I was hoping that perhaps some waterfowl had moved into the area. The I checked Glenmere Lake and Wickham Lake and only found a pair of Ruddy Ducks at Wickham\u00a0and a single Greater Scaup at Glenmere. I went home disappointed and then headed back out in the afternoon, unsure where to go. I decided to check 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary – Citgo Pond for shorebirds, and I’m so glad I did. Upon my arrival to the pond, I immediately located a DUNLIN<\/strong> and what I thought were three Pectoral Sandpipers. I put the word out and took many photos, particularly of the Dunlin. Two of the “Pectorals” were not sitting right with me, but I couldn’t think what else they might be. I took some photos of the birds so that I could\u00a0verify later, and \u00a0it wasn’t until later in the evening when I looked at my photos that I saw that they might be\u00a0RED KNOTS!<\/strong>\u00a0I was so excited!\u00a0I really wish I had been able to identify them in the field, but I was not expecting this at all, so I was happy to have gotten the photos. Great birding!<\/del><\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/29\/15:<\/strong> After receiving a couple of comments on this post questioning the identification of the two birds below, it was time to take another look and try to get it right. Both commenters believe that the birds are White-rumped Sandpipers rather than Red Knots. So last night I put my photos on the New York Birders Facebook page, where\u00a0I only got one response, which also identified the birds as immature WRSAs (but importantly no comments disagreeing with this). I initially considered WRSA for these birds, but ruled them out based on size, so I was confused. I turned to The Shorebird Guide by Michael O’Brien, Richard Crossley, and Kevin Karlson. The last two pages of the book contain silhouettes which depict the relative sizes of shorebirds. Looking at the silhouettes, it became clear that I should have actually ruled out Red Knots, based on their size rather than the opposite. It’s, of course, no fun to be wrong, but I\u00a0believe\u00a0that White-rumped Sandpiper is an accurate ID, so I’m happy to hopefully get it right. Thanks to Rosemarie and Christopher for their comments which got this started.<\/p>\n

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~A pair of RED KNOTS\u00a0<\/del>White-rumped Sandpipers\u00a0<\/strong>at 6 1\/2 Station Road, Citgo Pond, 10\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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~Pectoral Sandpiper, Citgo Pond 10\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Dunlin<\/strong> at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 10\/2515.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Dunlin<\/strong> at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, Citgo Pond 10\/2515.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~RED KNOT<\/del>\u00a0White-rumped Sandpiper<\/strong> working at the Citgo Pond, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary 10\/25\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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**Updated on 10\/29\/15.** I had an unproductive morning of birding today; I was hoping that perhaps some waterfowl had moved into the area. The I checked Glenmere Lake and Wickham Lake and only found a pair of Ruddy Ducks at Wickham\u00a0and a single Greater Scaup at Glenmere. I went home disappointed and then headed back … Continue reading “Wow! Super Shorebirds at 6 1\/2 Station Road!”<\/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":[11,6,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1kl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","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=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}