{"id":6746,"date":"2017-02-18T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:31:37","slug":"rye-new-york-021817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6746","title":{"rendered":"Rye, New York 02\/18\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Fish Crow lets me know it is NOT an American Crow “uh-uh, uh-uh”. Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent this beautiful Saturday morning out at the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye, New York. Although I saw only the expected birds, I had an excellent morning with 43 species observed. I guess if you are going to get the usuals, it’s good to be in a place where there are a lot of “usuals”. As expected, I did best\u00a0with waterfowl, seeing 18 different species. It had been over a year since I’d been to the sanctuary and although I was feeling like\u00a0I was having a good day, I was wondering how it compared to the previous years. Since 2013, I’ve visited the sanctuary 5 times, always in January or February. My average number of species for those visits is 34, and I’ve never had more than 36. And what makes it even more interesting is that this was the first time I’ve been there and the feeder station was not filled up. In past visits that feeder station would really be hopping and I’d get several species right there. Today, all the feeders were empty and I didn’t get a single bird.\u00a0One bird that I was really hoping for was\u00a0Purple Sandpiper since it’s a good spot for them, but\u00a0today\u00a0I came up empty. I did add\u00a0seven birds to my New York State year list, which was nice. I’ve included my list of species at the bottom of this post. Good birding!<\/p>\n

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~One of my favorites, too bad it is backlit. One of many Long-tailed Ducks at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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~A male Hooded Merganser in the pond at the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Bufflehead butt with pink feet, Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Red-bellied Woodpecker, a bird that I see and hear constantly but don’t get many photos of. Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~American Black Ducks do a fly by at the Rye Town Park, 02\/18\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brant
\nCanada Goose
\nMute Swan
\nGadwall
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nMallard
\nRing-necked Duck
\nLesser Scaup
\nLong-tailed Duck
\nBufflehead
\nCommon Goldeneye
\nHooded Merganser
\nRed-breasted Merganser
\nRuddy Duck
\nCommon Loon
\nPied-billed Grebe
\nHorned Grebe
\nGreat Cormorant
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nRing-billed Gull
\nHerring Gull
\nGreat Black-backed Gull
\nRock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
\nMourning Dove
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nBlue Jay
\nFish Crow
\nCommon Raven
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch
\nCarolina Wren
\nNorthern Mockingbird
\nEuropean Starling
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nRed-winged Blackbird
\nCommon Grackle
\nHouse Sparrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent this beautiful Saturday morning out at the Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye, New York. Although I saw only the expected birds, I had an excellent morning with 43 species observed. I guess if you are going to get the usuals, it’s good to be in a place where there are a … Continue reading “Rye, New York 02\/18\/17”<\/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":[25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1KO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","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=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}