{"id":6331,"date":"2016-09-25T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2016-09-25T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:27:14","slug":"oc-connecticut-warbler-continues-92516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6331","title":{"rendered":"OC Connecticut Warbler Continues, 9\/25\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~What?!? An unobscured photo of a Connecticut Warbler? Winding Waters Trail at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 9\/25\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I met Linda Scrima out at Winding Waters Trail early this morning; I was hoping to get my first\u00a0Lincoln’s Sparrow of the year, and\u00a0we thought maybe we would get lucky with the Connecticut Warbler for Linda. Just a short way down the trail, Linda got me on a Lincoln’s Sparrow in very nice light. As we\u00a0worked our way toward the area where the Connecticut Warbler has been seen, a group of birders caught up with us. It was Scott Baldinger,\u00a0Karen Miller, Bruce Nott, Jody Brodski and Diane Bliss (who actually caught up with all of us further down the trail). I was thinking that I did not like our odds of relocating the CONW with such a large group, but we would try our best. It was a very birdy morning on the trail and having all the extra eyes helped locate many birds. We did particularly well with warblers; Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, and Black-throated Green Warbler were all seen well (it was my lifer Tennessee Warbler – woohoo!). The one warbler\u00a0that was not cooperating was the Connecticut, at least not for a good while. Then, a bird popped up just to the left of me and Jody. We both got on the bird quickly and knew it was the CONNECTICUT WARBLER<\/strong>!\u00a0It perched briefly and then moved further up and into another tree. We were trying frantically to get everyone on the bird, which then crossed the path and perched in some ivy high up on a tree trunk. It eventually showed itself very well on an open branch in good light and I was lucky enough to get a photo. AND, everyone in the group was able to get on the bird! I was really shocked that it worked out, and everyone was pretty giddy about it.\u00a0The bird was a life bird for everyone in the group outside of myself and Scotty. Pretty exciting birding!<\/p>\n

As a side note, Jody had a flyover of a Sandhill Crane in the Black Dirt Region on her way to Winding Waters. I ran around a little bit afterwards, as did Bruce and Jody, but as of this writing no-one had any luck relocating that bird.<\/p>\n

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~A sweet looking Lincoln’s Sparrow at Winding Waters Trail, 9\/25\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Tennessee Warbler at Winding Waters Trail, 9\/25\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Not as good a photo, but I wanted to include this TEWA with prey,. Winding Waters Trail 9\/25\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met Linda Scrima out at Winding Waters Trail early this morning; I was hoping to get my first\u00a0Lincoln’s Sparrow of the year, and\u00a0we thought maybe we would get lucky with the Connecticut Warbler for Linda. Just a short way down the trail, Linda got me on a Lincoln’s Sparrow in very nice light. As … Continue reading “OC Connecticut Warbler Continues, 9\/25\/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":[25,6,15,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-songbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1E7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","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=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}