{"id":6628,"date":"2017-01-08T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2017-01-08T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:28:38","slug":"playing-catch-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6628","title":{"rendered":"Playing Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~What a cutie! A Snow Bunting chows down on some spilled corn in the black dirt, 12\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve gotten out a good amount in the past week, but really haven’t had anything all that amazing. I’ve spent much of my birding time chasing a couple of mixed\u00a0flocks of Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, and Lapland Longspurs hoping for photographs. A farm truck spilled some corn on the road and it was a mixed blessing. It was great because for a few days the birds were actively feeding on the the spilled corn. It was not so great because, in my opinion, the corn does not really make for good pics.<\/p>\n

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~Lapland Longspur in the black dirt, 12\/30\/16. \u00a0My best count was 6 of these beauties, but Ken McDermott had a remarkable 13!~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Ah ha! Got a Snow Bunting with no corn involved. Black Dirt 12\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My only other noteworthy observations involved some good local waterfowl. On Wednesday evening after work, I went to the Newburgh Waterfront looking for gulls. Instead, I found Ken McDermott, who told me he had 2 Horned Grebes at Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point. I ran for the birds and relocated them, pretty far out into the Hudson River, but I had good scope views. Then, on Friday after work, I went to Wickham Lake to try for a couple of Common Goldeneyes that Rob Stone had seen there earlier in the day. The birds were still present and I was able to take some documentary photos. I also stopped by Warwick Town Hall where I\u00a0had a really good mix of waterfowl: Canada Goose (2), Gadwall (18), American Wigeon (1), Mallard (25), Northern Pintail (1), Ring-necked Duck (2), and Greater Scaup (1). By the time I got there it was too dark for photographs, but good birds for sure!<\/p>\n

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~Two Common Goldeneyes at Wickham Lake on 01\/06\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Otherwise, I’ve just been doing\u00a0lot of running around, seeing mostly the usuals, and taking\u00a0loads of photos. Here are\u00a0several\u00a0I felt were worth sharing:<\/p>\n

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~A young Bald Eagle flies over the Delaware River at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 12\/30\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~On Saturday 01\/07\/17, I took a trip to the Lackawaxen, PA Eagle Watch to visit with Ed Morse. It was quite lively at the watch and I had nearly 10 Bald Eagle in the first 15 minutes I was there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~American Tree Sparrow in the black dirt, 01\/08\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~On Sunday, it was this kind of day. Thirteen degrees Fahrenheit for most of the time I was birding, even the Canada Geese were laying low. Wickham Lake, 01\/08\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Ring-billed Gull on a nice perch at the Newburgh Waterfront, 01\/08\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Dark-eyed Junco on some farm equipment in the black dirt, 01\/08\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’ve gotten out a good amount in the past week, but really haven’t had anything all that amazing. I’ve spent much of my birding time chasing a couple of mixed\u00a0flocks of Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, and Lapland Longspurs hoping for photographs. A farm truck spilled some corn on the road and it was a mixed … Continue reading “Playing Catch Up”<\/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":[23,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1IU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","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=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}