{"id":7090,"date":"2017-05-13T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2017-05-13T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:22:57","slug":"five-swallow-night-051117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7090","title":{"rendered":"Five Swallow Night, 05\/11\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7095\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7095\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7095\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW2-Edit.jpg 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~A Bank Swallow cruises over the water of the pond in front of the viewing platform at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Liberty Marsh, 05\/12\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday evening, I met up with Rob Stone and Maria Loukeris at the Liberty\u00a0Loop Trail\u00a0viewing platform and we had five species of\u00a0swallows feeding over the marsh: <strong>Tree, Barn, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, and Cliff.<\/strong> It was a learning experience for me, and I think I now have a pretty decent handle on identifying these erratic and fast flying birds. The highlight for me was getting incredible scope views of a perched Cliff Swallow, sitting among some Barn Swallows. I went back on Friday evening and tried for some flight photos. I had all the same swallows\u00a0except for Cliff Swallow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7092\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7092\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7092\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BARS-Edit.jpg 2019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Barn Swallow in flight\u00a0over the mirk of the marsh. Wallkill River NWR, 05\/12\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7091\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7091\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-CLSW-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-CLSW-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-CLSW-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-CLSW-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-CLSW.jpg 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Three Barn Swallows above a single Cliff Swallow, Wallkill River NWR 05\/11\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7093\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7093\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7093\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051217-BASW-Edit-2.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Bank Swallow in flight, Wallkill River NWR 05\/12\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, I met up with Rob Stone and Maria Loukeris at the Liberty\u00a0Loop Trail\u00a0viewing platform and we had five species of\u00a0swallows feeding over the marsh: Tree, Barn, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, and Cliff. It was a learning experience for me, and I think I now have a pretty decent handle on identifying these erratic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Swallow Night, 05\/11\/17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1Qm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}