{"id":5829,"date":"2016-04-30T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:46:54","slug":"43016-pochuck-mountain-and-6-12-station-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5829","title":{"rendered":"4\/30\/16 – Pochuck Mountain and 6 1\/2 Station Road"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"~Ovenbird<\/a>
~Ovenbird at Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s that time of year when new birds are not very hard to come by. Migration is getting into full swing, and many new birds are moving into and through the area. I spent the morning and into the early afternoon birding\u00a0at the above locations, and added 14 new species to my Orange County year list.<\/p>\n

First thing this morning, I\u00a0met Linda Scrima and Maria Loukeris at Pochuck Mountain State Forest, which was quite birdy. We had a nice long walk with 33 species\u00a0and I added 8 personal first of year (FOY) birds:<\/p>\n

Wood Thrush<\/strong><\/em>
\nGray Catbird<\/strong><\/em>
\nOvenbird<\/strong><\/em>
\nBlue-winged Warbler<\/strong><\/em>
\nPrairie Warbler<\/strong><\/em>
\nBlack-throated Blue Warbler <\/strong><\/em>
\nScarlet Tanager<\/strong><\/em>
\nBaltimore Oriole<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ovenbird was the bird of the day for sure; we heard them calling all along the trail as we walked. It was a nice outing, although at the end we had to cut it short and hustle back to our cars as both Linda and Maria had other obligations.<\/p>\n

\"~\"<\/a>
~This was one very accommodating \u00a0Field Sparrow, on the Heritage Trail at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 4\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterwards, I headed over to 6 1\/2 Station Road with the main goal of trying for some shorebirds. I started at the Citgo Pond, and although it was not a great success, I did see a several\u00a0Killdeer, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs<\/strong><\/em> (FOY in Orange County), and 2 Spotted Sandpipers (<\/strong><\/em>FOY). The habitat looks good there right now for shorebirds, so I will be checking in for sure. I also walked a portion of the Heritage Trail, and ultimately I had\u00a032 species. Other new\u00a0year\u00a0birds for me included: Green Heron<\/strong><\/em>, several Chimney Swifts, 2 Warbling Vireos,<\/strong><\/em> and a House Wren.<\/strong><\/em> I was bummed out about the Warbling Vireos because they were down low and in good light, but for some reason I was never able to get a good focus while I was trying to photograph them.<\/p>\n

While I wouldn’t categorize it as\u00a0amazing, it was\u00a0certainly a good and enjoyable day of birding.<\/p>\n

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~An acrobatic looking House Wren at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 4\/30\/16. ~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~With all the Brown-headed Cowbirds I’ve seen in recent days, I finally got a decent photo of one. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 4\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"~\"<\/a>
~Blue-winged Warbler at Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My FOY Green Heron, which is always exciting to me. Love this bird. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 5\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year when new birds are not very hard to come by. Migration is getting into full swing, and many new birds are moving into and through the area. I spent the morning and into the early afternoon birding\u00a0at the above locations, and added 14 new species to my Orange County year … Continue reading “4\/30\/16 – Pochuck Mountain and 6 1\/2 Station Road”<\/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":[11,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-pochuck-mountain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1w1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","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=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}