{"id":598,"date":"2012-10-24T21:53:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:58:00","slug":"6-12-station-road-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7559.1JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-601\" title=\"_MG_7559.1JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7559.1JPG-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7559.1JPG-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7559.1JPG-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7559.1JPG.jpg 1468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I am pretty sure but not positive that this is a Red-tailed Hawk. I never saw this bird from the front and I find identifying perched hawks to be a challenge. Please leave a comment if you can ID this bird -thanks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a rainy and foggy afternoon so I decided to go to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary to see if any new ducks were present. I did pretty well with waterfowl, I saw many Canada Geese, several Mallards, around 20 Green-winged Teals,\u00a0 5 Mute Swans, and\u00a0 3 Ruddy Ducks. Unfortunately, the 2 Pied-billed Grebes that I have been see out there recently were not to be found.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_590\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_7572\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7572-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Three Ruddy Ducks way out there in the fog and mist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_595\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7488.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_7488\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7488-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"819\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>A puffed up Field Sparrow. 6 1\/2 Station Road 10-24-12.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sanctuary had a lot of bird activity, here&#8217;s my species list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canada Goose<\/li>\n<li>Mute Swan<\/li>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>Green-winged Teal<\/li>\n<li>Ruddy Duck<\/li>\n<li>Great Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li>Red-tail Hawk ?<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Phoebe<\/li>\n<li>White-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>\n<li>Carolina Wren<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Field Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>White-throated Sparrow<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>Common Grackle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highlight of the day was not even bird related. I saw a BOBCAT slink alongside the creek and then into the brush! It was very exciting and my heart was racing for quite a while after that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-605\" title=\"_MG_7541\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7541-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7541-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MG_7541-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rainy and foggy afternoon so I decided to go to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary to see if any new ducks were present. I did pretty well with waterfowl, I saw many Canada Geese, several Mallards, around 20 Green-winged Teals,\u00a0 5 Mute Swans, and\u00a0 3 Ruddy Ducks. Unfortunately, the 2 Pied-billed Grebes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary&#8221;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-9E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}