{"id":5163,"date":"2015-11-22T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T22:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2015-11-22T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T22:34:58","slug":"liberty-loop-112215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5163","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Loop, 11\/22\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Red-tailed Hawk flies overhead at the Wallkill River NWR Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve had a busy weekend, but I did get manage to get out and do some birding early Saturday morning. I met Maria Loukeris over at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, and we walked the\u00a0Liberty Loop trail. It was a gorgeous morning, crisp with nice light and just a little bit of a breeze. We found plenty of birds to make the walk interesting, but I did not manage to see any of my target birds – Brown Creeper, Fox Sparrow, and Rusty Blackbird, all three of which I need for Orange County for this year. The highlight of the morning for me was seeing hundreds of waterfowl (Canada Geese, American Black Ducks, Mallards, Northern Pintails, and Green-winged Teals) pick up, circle around the refuge and then put back down again. We did alright with raptors with a Turkey Vulture, several Northern Harriers, an adult Bald Eagle, and 3 Red-tailed Hawks. My list for the day includes 26 species; nothing amazing, but it still made for a nice morning of birding that I was grateful to have.<\/p>\n

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~My first American Tree Sparrow shot of the season, Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk at the Liberty Loop, 11\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nMallard
\nNorthern Pintail
\nGreen-winged Teal
\nRing-necked Duck
\nTurkey Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nBald Eagle
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nAmerican Coot
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nNorthern Flicker
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWinter Wren
\nEastern Bluebird
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nAmerican Goldfinch
\nEuropean Starling<\/p>\n

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Ninety-one\u00a0Green-winged Teal take a lap around the refuge, Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~On the southern leg of the loop, we saw this tree that had been worked on pretty heavily by a beaver. Liberty Loop Trail, 11\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a busy weekend, but I did get manage to get out and do some birding early Saturday morning. I met Maria Loukeris over at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, and we walked the\u00a0Liberty Loop trail. It was a gorgeous morning, crisp with nice light and just a little bit of a breeze. … Continue reading “Liberty Loop, 11\/22\/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":[6,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5163","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-1lh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","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=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}