{"id":5573,"date":"2016-02-21T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2016-02-21T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:11:02","slug":"good-birding-in-orange-county-22116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding in Orange County, 2\/21\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~I enjoyed seeing this Red-tailed Hawk; I pulled over to listen for songbirds and then saw it sitting low in the woods. Port Jervis, NY 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a disappointing\u00a0Saturday of birding, I did much better on Sunday. I started the day in Port Jervis, hitting several spots. I added four birds to my Orange County year list, including two birds that I feel are pretty good birds for the county: GREATER SCAUP<\/strong> and COMMON GOLDENEYE<\/strong>. The other two birds were \u00a0a Peregrine Falcon and a small flock of Cedar Waxwings. The highlight of the morning, however, was first hearing and then seeing a skein of approximately 75\u00a0SNOW GEESE<\/strong> fly overhead as I walked down a trail. This got me thinking about the possibility of finding some Snow Geese in the black dirt, which would be my next stop.<\/p>\n

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~One of my first birds of the day – Greater Scaup at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Port Jervis, NY 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~An adult Bald Eagle flies over the Delaware River, Port Jervis NY, 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Nice bird to see, a single Common Goldeneye, Laurel Grove Cemetery 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~SNOW GEESE! Nice flyover of a skein of SNGOs in Port Jervis, NY 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Peregrine Falcon perched high over the Delaware River, Port Jervis NY, 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made my way out to the Black Dirt Region, where I met up with Bruce Nott and Linda Scrima. We sifted through a nice sized group of Canada Geese and found some gems: 6 Snow Geese<\/strong>, 1 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE<\/strong>, and I was finally able catch up with a CACKLING GOOSE<\/strong> (there have been many reports in the region). Afterwards, Bruce and I continued to the Pine Island Turf Nursery, in search of pipits. We didn’t have any luck with the pipits, but we had a good sized flock of Horned Larks and a good collection of songbirds that provided some photo ops. It was a really good day of birding for me, something that I certainly needed.<\/p>\n

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~Cackling Goose in the black dirt 2\/21\/16.\u00a0I like this for a Cackling because of\u00a0the smaller size, small bill, shorter neck, and blocky head.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Terrible photo here, but I included it because I think it shows the size of this bird better than the photo above. Cackling Goose, 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Red-bellied Woodpecker shows off its namesake (and it’s tongue!). Pine Island Turf Nursery, 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~That’s a blue Eastern Bluebird! Pine Island Turf Nursery, 2\/21\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a disappointing\u00a0Saturday of birding, I did much better on Sunday. I started the day in Port Jervis, hitting several spots. I added four birds to my Orange County year list, including two birds that I feel are pretty good birds for the county: GREATER SCAUP and COMMON GOLDENEYE. The other two birds were \u00a0a … Continue reading “Good Birding in Orange County, 2\/21\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1rT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","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=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}