{"id":5253,"date":"2015-12-20T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2015-12-20T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:50:42","slug":"shawangunk-grasslands-nwr-122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 12\/20\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"~Short-eared<\/a>
~Short-eared Owl hunting over the Shawangunk Grasslands, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kyle Dudgeon<\/a> and I spent the afternoon in one of the photo blinds at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0Early on, it was very slow with only a few Northern Harriers being seen and none of them coming close to the blind. Several Red-tailed Hawks moved from perch to perch off in the distance. We had a\u00a0Wilson’s Snipe do a flyover and then five Eastern Meadowlarks perched in tree. We didn’t have much excitement until later in the afternoon when the SHORT-EARED OWLS got up on the early side and put on quite a show. We had at least 4 owls and they were actively hunting and tangling with each other and a Northern Harrier as well.\u00a0We spent over an hour\u00a0watching and photographing the owls, which spent a lot of time around our blind but somehow never came in very\u00a0close (all these images are pretty heavily cropped). I was happy to get lucky once again with these awesome\u00a0birds.<\/p>\n

\"~Five<\/a>
~Five Eastern Meadowlarks perch in a tree. I believe that’s a Red-tailed Hawk perched in the distance beyond the meadowlarks. Shawangunk Grasslands, NWR 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~SEOW at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Short-eared Owl heading straight for the photo blind at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~SEOW flyover at the grasslands, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Short-eared Owl cruises over the tall grasses at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A pair of SEOWs tangling at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, 12\/20\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Dudgeon and I spent the afternoon in one of the photo blinds at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0Early on, it was very slow with only a few Northern Harriers being seen and none of them coming close to the blind. Several Red-tailed Hawks moved from perch to perch off in the distance. We had … Continue reading “Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 12\/20\/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":[19,12,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1mJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}