{"id":5818,"date":"2016-04-24T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2016-04-24T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T23:38:04","slug":"sunday-shots-42416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 4\/24\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Yellow-bellied Sapsucker on the Indian Hill Loop at Sterling Forest State Park, 4\/24\/16. You can see the first hole the bird made above its head, and the second one is behind its bill with sap dripping out of it.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUICK POST:<\/strong> I got an early start this morning and hiked Indian Hill Loop at Sterling Forest State Park. It was a nice hike with some scenic overlooks and it was just birdy enough to keep it interesting. I had Blue-gray Gnatcatchers throughout the walk, heard two Louisiana Waterthrushes, and I was happy to find\u00a0Black-and-White Warblers at two different high points in the walk. However,\u00a0the definite highlight of the day was when a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker came in and landed in a tree less than 20 feet from me. I froze as the bird went about its business; I watched as the bird carefully created a hole and then fed on the sap. The bird did this two times while I stood\u00a0only\u00a0yards away, and I just relaxed and enjoyed every minute of it, not knowing when I would ever get another opportunity like this.<\/p>\n

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~One of three Black-and-White Warblers I saw on the trail today, Indian Hill Loop at Sterling Forest, 4\/24\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I included this photo because I was impressed with the feet on this bird, which seem large to me, but also seem to barely be holding on to the tree. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Sterling Forest, 4\/24\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I took this shot earlier this week – Yellow-rumped Warbler at Reservoir #3 in Port Jervis NY, 4\/19\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUICK POST: I got an early start this morning and hiked Indian Hill Loop at Sterling Forest State Park. It was a nice hike with some scenic overlooks and it was just birdy enough to keep it interesting. I had Blue-gray Gnatcatchers throughout the walk, heard two Louisiana Waterthrushes, and I was happy to find\u00a0Black-and-White … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 4\/24\/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":[6,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds","category-sterlforest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1vQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","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=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}