{"id":5352,"date":"2016-01-02T21:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T02:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:53:52","slug":"shawangunk-grasslands-nwr-1216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Short-eared Owl at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To say the meteorologists got it wrong would be an understatement. With clear, sunny skies in the forecast, Kyle Dudgeon and I headed out to the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in hopes of getting some good Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl photos. We arrived early enough to claim one of the four photo blinds at the refuge, but alas, the heavy cloud cover refused to clear. We approximated 6 Northern Harriers were present at the refuge; we tried for the majority of the day to get some decent photos but no harriers came close enough for any decent shots.\u00a0Fortunately, it was just barely after 3:00 that the Short-eared Owls picked up. And, although they never came very close, they spent enough time around our blind to get some decent (if noisy) shots and they were as entertaining as ever. Another highlight of the day was 3 large skeins of Snow Geese which flew over, heading south.<\/p>\n

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~SEOW at the Grasslands on 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Short-eared Owl at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A SEOW dives for prey, Shawangunk Grasslands, NWR 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A high flying Short-eared Owl passes over the photo blind at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I struggled to get Northern Harrier photos today at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~SEOW cruising the Grasslands, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A cropped shot of one of the skeins of Snow Geese that passed over today at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To say the meteorologists got it wrong would be an understatement. With clear, sunny skies in the forecast, Kyle Dudgeon and I headed out to the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in hopes of getting some good Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl photos. We arrived early enough to claim one of the four photo blinds … Continue reading “Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 1\/2\/16”<\/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":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1ok","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","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=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}