{"id":5765,"date":"2016-04-10T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2016-04-10T19:48:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:48:23","slug":"orange-county-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5765","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Birding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Rusty Blackbird at White Oak Swamp, 4\/9\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since I’ve been out of the loop for a little while, I figured it would be a good idea to do a post of\u00a0notable Orange County sightings that I know of from the past week:<\/p>\n

SUNDAY\u00a04\/3\/16 –<\/strong> It was a waterfowl fallout of sorts in OC. Rob Stone reported 20+ Long-tailed Ducks at Wickham Lake, along with 1 Greater Scaup, 1 Common Loon, and 1 Horned Grebe. Meanwhile, Kathy Ashman reported to Mearns Bird Club that she had 7 Horned Grebes at Glenmere Lake, with some in breeding plumage.<\/p>\n

MONDAY 4\/4\/16 –<\/strong> Rob Stone had a Vesper Sparrow at Lower Wisner Road.<\/p>\n

THURSDAY 4\/7\/16 –<\/strong> I had 1 Greater Scaup, 1 Common Loon (my FOY), and 2 Horned Grebes at Greenwood Lake. Kathy Ashman reported a Green Heron at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

FRIDAY 4\/8\/16 –<\/strong> \u00a0I had 1 Common Loon at Sterling Lake and\u00a0at Greenwood Lake I had\u00a01 Horned Grebe, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, and 2 Common Loons.<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 4\/9\/16 –<\/strong> I had my FOY Louisiana Waterthrush and Swamp Sparrow on the Sterling Lake Loop Trail. At White Oak Swamp, I finally got my FOY Rusty Blackbird and I also had my FOY Palm Warbler.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY 4\/10\/16 –<\/strong> Maria Loukeris had a Common Loon at Glenmere Lake. I went for the bird later in the day and 4 Greater Scaup and 1 Lesser Scaup (FOY) had moved in as well. Earlier in the day, I had my FOY Osprey at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary (but missed out on the Green Heron).<\/p>\n

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~Common Loon at Glenmere Lake, 4\/10\/16. Thanks to Maria Loukeris for the heads up on this bird.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 4\/10\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Crappy photo of a good bird. Louisiana Waterthrush on the Sterling Lake Loop Trail, 4\/9\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Palm Warbler on the Sterling Lake Loop Trail, 4\/9\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve been out of the loop for a little while, I figured it would be a good idea to do a post of\u00a0notable Orange County sightings that I know of from the past week: SUNDAY\u00a04\/3\/16 – It was a waterfowl fallout of sorts in OC. Rob Stone reported 20+ Long-tailed Ducks at Wickham Lake, … Continue reading “Orange County Birding”<\/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":[11,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-sterlforest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1uZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","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=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}