{"id":5229,"date":"2015-12-13T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2015-12-13T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T22:40:23","slug":"liberty-loop-121315-the-usuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Loop, 12\/13\/15 – The Usuals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~I know I’ve posted a lot of Red-tailed Hawks in flight lately, but hopefully folks aren’t too sick of them. RTHA at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop 12\/13\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was a little bit at a loss as to where to bird this weekend. I ran around to multiple locations on Saturday and did not have many birds at all. I ended the day with a stop at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, where I ran into Karen Miller. It was a nice evening but not a good one for photos. We had 4 Short-eared Owls, 6 Northern Harriers, 2 Red-tailed Hawks, and my personal highlight – a Wilson’s Snipe.<\/p>\n

This morning I walked the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Loop with Maria Loukeris. It was beautiful,\u00a0warm morning\u00a0and it was a birdy walk but\u00a0all the birds we saw were expected species. I had a three\u00a0target birds – Brown Creeper, Fox Sparrow (I need both for my 2015 Orange County list), and Rough-legged Hawk (because typically I would seen many of them by now). I failed to locate any of my target birds, but we had a nice\u00a0walk where we had 27 species. I’ve included\u00a0the morning’s list of birds below.<\/p>\n

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~Lucky shot – Black-capped Chickadee in flight at the Liberty Loop, 12\/13\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I think these American Tree Sparrows are gorgeous. This is the first year that I am taking notice of this. \u00a0ATSP at Wallkill River NWR, Liberty Loop 12\/13\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s my list for the morning:<\/p>\n

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~Downy Woodpecker at the Loop, 12\/13\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nMallard
\nGreen-winged Teal
\nTurkey Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nBald Eagle
\nRed-shouldered Hawk
\nAmerican Coot
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nHairy Woodpecker
\nNorthern Flicker
\nPileated Woodpecker
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nRed-winged Blackbird
\nEastern Bluebird
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nWhite-crowned Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nHouse Finch
\nAmerican Goldfinch<\/p>\n


\n\"~\"<\/a>~We enjoyed watching the Northern Harriers hunting over the marsh, Liberty Loop 12\/13\/15.~<\/p>\n

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~This shot is actually from last weekend – Northern Mockingbird at Lower Wisner Road in Warwick, NY 12\/6\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Also from Lower Wisner Road in Warwick, taken yesterday, 12\/12\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a little bit at a loss as to where to bird this weekend. I ran around to multiple locations on Saturday and did not have many birds at all. I ended the day with a stop at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, where I ran into Karen Miller. It was a nice evening but … Continue reading “Liberty Loop, 12\/13\/15 – The Usuals”<\/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-5229","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-1ml","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}