{"id":5175,"date":"2015-11-29T20:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2015-11-29T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:09:45","slug":"thanksgiving-weekend-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5175","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Weekend 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~American Coot at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, Liberty Loop 11\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This afternoon, upon my arrival home after a fun but busy Thanksgiving weekend up in Syracuse, I headed out to do some birding and enjoy\u00a0the beautiful weather. I\u00a0was undecided on where to go, but excited to get out locally. I tooled around the black dirt to see what I could find; it was a birdy ride, and I hit many of my usual spots\u00a0and I eventually\u00a0made my way out to the Camel Farm, where I ran into Karen Miller. We caught up, trading Thanksgiving stories and we sorted through the nearly 1200 Canada Geese that were present. A Red-tailed Hawk flew right over us, calling the whole time. We did not locate anything different among the Canada Geese, and I kept moving eventually making brief stops at the Wallkill River NWR’s Winding Waters Trail and Liberty Loop. I was happy to find\u00a0over a dozen American Coots in front of the viewing platform at the Liberty Loop, in very nice light so I took some photos. For the afternoon I had a total of 29 species, I’ll include my list below.<\/p>\n

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~A Red-tailed Hawk flyover at the Camel Farm, 11\/29\/15.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I like the look on the the face of this Northern Cardinal, she does not seem entirely pleased. Black Dirt Region, 11\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black Dirt Region 11\/29\/15:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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~Downy Woodpecker at Wallkill River NWR, Winding Waters Trail, 11\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nMallard
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nNorthern Harrier
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nAmerican Coot
\nRing-billed Gull
\nRock Pigeon
\nMourning Dove
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nHorned Lark
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch
\nCarolina Wren
\nRuby-crowned Kinglet
\nEastern Bluebird
\nAmerican Robin
\nEuropean Starling
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nHouse Sparrow<\/p>\n

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~Two more cute coots at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop, 11\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, on\u00a0Saturday morning, my brother-in-law Bill and I went out to one of my favorite birding spots – Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>. It was a terrible day for photos and tough for viewing distant birds\u00a0as\u00a0it was very gray and dark all day long. The refuge was loaded with waterfowl and we had 17<\/strong> different types of water birds: Canada Geese, Tundra Swan, Gadwall, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Pied-billed Grebe,<\/strong> and American Coot<\/strong>! We did not get a large number of raptor species, but we had plenty of individuals,\u00a0with several Northern Harriers and over a half a dozen of both Bald Eagles and Red-tailed Hawks. As I mentioned, it was a tough day for photos, but here are\u00a0a few shots from the morning:<\/p>\n

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~Red-tailed Hawk at Montezuma NWR, 11\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~It was exciting to get close up looks at this young Bald Eagle, unfortunately it was tough light to photograph. Montezuma NWR, 11\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A nice look at a Northern Shoveler at Montezuma NWR, 11\/28\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, upon my arrival home after a fun but busy Thanksgiving weekend up in Syracuse, I headed out to do some birding and enjoy\u00a0the beautiful weather. I\u00a0was undecided on where to go, but excited to get out locally. I tooled around the black dirt to see what I could find; it was a birdy … Continue reading “Thanksgiving Weekend 2015”<\/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":[6,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1lt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}