{"id":518,"date":"2012-09-15T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2012-09-15T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T16:12:58","slug":"basha-kill-91512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Basha Kill 9\/15\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

I put my kayak into the water at the Basha Kill right at sunrise this morning. It was a chilly paddle at first, but as the sun made it over the mountain it warmed up quickly. There were many Wood Ducks flying over and I came across at least a half a dozen Great Blue Herons as I paddled the channel. I spotted a couple of falcons that darted behind the trees before I could get a good ID on them. Ironically the highlight of my paddle this morning came when I stopped at Haven Road and got out of my kayak to chat with fellow birder\/blogger John Haas (The Bashakill Birder<\/a>). We watched as a Merlin flew across Haven Road and then chased a Mourning Dove over the kill and around the corner. The Merlin was overhead again shortly after that and then perched on a tree right on Haven road, giving me a good opportunity to get a photo:<\/p>\n

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Merlin on Haven Road at the Basha Kill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two of the many Wood Ducks that flew over as I paddled the channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After my paddle, I headed over to the Deli Fields to have a look around:<\/p>\n

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Eastern Phoebe at the Basha Kill Deli Fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A sad looking American Goldfinch at the Deli Fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Song Sparrow posing at the Deli Fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put my kayak into the water at the Basha Kill right at sunrise this morning. It was a chilly paddle at first, but as the sun made it over the mountain it warmed up quickly. There were many Wood Ducks flying over and I came across at least a half a dozen Great Blue … Continue reading “Basha Kill 9\/15\/12”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raptors","category-sullivancounty","category-bashakill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}