{"id":6757,"date":"2017-02-19T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2017-02-19T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:38:33","slug":"local-photos-021917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6757","title":{"rendered":"Local Photos, 02\/19\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Always a favorite and often cooperative. Merlin in the black dirt, 02\/19\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve birded locally most days in the past week and while it’s been enjoyable,\u00a0things have been on the slow side. Today things picked up a bit for me when I located a large flock of mixed blackbirds in the black dirt, and then shortly after that had a cooperative Merlin, followed by a large flock of Snow Geese, which I still have not grown tired of. Earlier in the week at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, I had my first Great Blue Heron of the year (and it was in good light!). I’m feeling like I might be ready for winter birding to be over – maybe the flocks of blackbirds are an indication that birds are starting to move?<\/p>\n

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~This might be my favorite Snow Goose photo of the year – I love the dreamy quality of it. A sea of Snow Geese in the black dirt, 02\/19\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I had a very large flock of mixed blackbirds in the black dirt today, 02\/19\/17. This shot has mostly Red-winged Blackbirds with some Brown-headed Cowbirds and Common Grackles mixed in.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Great Blue Heron does a fly by at Wallkill River NWR, 02\/19\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A White-crowned Sparrow strikes a strange pose, barely hanging on. In the black dirt, 02\/11\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~More SNGOs in the black dirt, 02\/19\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Northern Cardinal just before sunset at Wallkill River NWR, 02\/15\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve birded locally most days in the past week and while it’s been enjoyable,\u00a0things have been on the slow side. Today things picked up a bit for me when I located a large flock of mixed blackbirds in the black dirt, and then shortly after that had a cooperative Merlin, followed by a large flock … Continue reading “Local Photos, 02\/19\/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":[25,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1KZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}