{"id":5541,"date":"2016-02-14T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2016-02-14T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:20:05","slug":"6-12-station-road-sanctuary-21416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5541","title":{"rendered":"6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~American Robin feeding at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent a couple of cold hours this morning walking the Heritage Trail at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. It was quite birdy and I tallied 20 species for the walk; I’ll include my species list below. The best and most surprising bird for me was a female Northern Harrier which was cruising the open area below the Orange County Jail. I also enjoyed seeing 2 Great Blue Herons, one that flushed as I walked along the trail and the second was all tucked in on the bank of the stream alongside the trail. It was a brisk -3 degrees Fahrenheit when I started my walk, and it warmed up to a balmy 1 degree Fahrenheit by the time I got back to the car.<\/p>\n

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A male Eastern Bluebird shows a little wing, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16. This is a species that I seem to see often when it’s very cold like this.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~It was really cool to see this Great Blue Heron all hunkered down on the bank of the stream which runs parallel to the Heritage Trail, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Great Blue Heron 2<\/strong>
\nNorthern Harrier 1<\/strong>
\nRed-tailed Hawk 2<\/strong>
\nRing-billed Gull 1<\/strong>
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker 2<\/strong>
\nDowny Woodpecker 6<\/strong>
\nHairy Woodpecker 1<\/strong>
\nPileated Woodpecker 1<\/strong>
\nBlue Jay 8<\/strong>
\nAmerican Crow 1<\/strong>
\nBlack-capped Chickadee 2<\/strong>
\nTufted Titmouse 2<\/strong>
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch 1<\/strong>
\nEastern Bluebird 4<\/strong>
\nAmerican Robin 12<\/strong>
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow 25<\/strong>
\nDark-eyed Junco 65<\/strong>
\nWhite-throated Sparrow 6<\/strong>
\nSong Sparrow 1<\/strong>
\nNorthern Cardinal 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A pair of White-throated Sparrows forage on the trail in front of me at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A puffed up American Tree Sparrow, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Downy Woodpeckers were plentiful during my walk and also very accommodating. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One more shot of the American Robin feeding, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a couple of cold hours this morning walking the Heritage Trail at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary. It was quite birdy and I tallied 20 species for the walk; I’ll include my species list below. The best and most surprising bird for me was a female Northern Harrier which was cruising the open … Continue reading “6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 2\/14\/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":[11,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1rn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}