{"id":6296,"date":"2016-09-05T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2016-09-05T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:25:35","slug":"highland-lakes-state-park-9416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Highland Lakes State Park, 9\/4\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~I got a great look and spent some time photographing this Brown Thrasher, Highland Lakes SP 9\/4\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday morning I made a brief stop at Highland Lakes State Park in Middletown before heading up to Mount Peter Hawkwatch to participate in cleanup day. I was initially saving the report and photos to do an end of the weekend post, thinking I could add any birds I had today to it. The problem is that the birds did not cooperate today; it was pretty dead out there for me, from Mt. Pete Hawkwatch to the black dirt. So, back to my Sunday morning at HLSP. It was a brief but birdy stop; I had 26 species in less than an hour of birding. Most noteworthy was my FOY PURPLE FINCHES, which put my total for my Orange County year list at 199. I also had a great photo op with a Brown Thrasher, which is a bird I don’t seem to see very often these days.<\/p>\n

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~These birds made my morning – one of two PURPLE FINCHES at Highland Lakes SP in Middletown, NY, 9\/4\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I tried like heck to turn this into a Philadelphia Vireo, but it wouldn’t happen. Warbling Vireo at Highland Lakes SP, 9\/4\/16.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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