{"id":7099,"date":"2017-05-14T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2017-05-14T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:22:47","slug":"satisfying-sunday-birding-051417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7099","title":{"rendered":"Satisfying Sunday Birding, 05\/14\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Pileated Woodpecker at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/14\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time of year it’s easy for me to feel like migration is just flying by (no pun intended) and leaving me\u00a0in the dust. I had a busy week, so I didn’t get out as much as I would have liked, and then Saturday ended up being a total wash out.\u00a0So, when Sunday morning rolled around, I was raring to go and I was going to bird, rain or shine. Fortunately, the rain held off and I had a very pleasant morning and early afternoon of birding.<\/p>\n

I started the morning in Port Jervis at Laurel Grove Cemetery. I knew there was a chance that I could have a decent day when, as I got out of the car I heard the heavy thumping of a Pileated Woodpecker doing its thing. The bird was working a stump and I was able to get some decent, if noisy shots. An\u00a0early highlight at the cemetery was several\u00a0BLACKPOLL WARBLERS\u00a0that had moved in. After just over an hour, I left to go to Elks Brox Memorial Park. I was just getting started there when I received a call from Rob Stone. He was at the cemetery and had CAPE MAY WARBLERS and a Wilson’s Warbler. I bailed on Elks Brox and headed back to the cemetery. The CMWAs hung around and I was able to get my first ever looks at them in breeding plumage, having only seen them in the fall before; I was pretty stoked. Between my two trips to the cemetery, I had a total of 41 species.<\/p>\n

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~What a beauty! CAPE MAY WARBLER at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/14\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~One of several BLACKPOLL WARBLERS at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/14\/17. BLPWs are definitely among my favorite warblers, I just think it is a cool bird.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My next stop was the Camel Farm, to try for the DUNLIN<\/strong> that had been reported there. Rob and I met up there and sure enough, the pair of Dunlin were still present, as was the White-rumped Sandpiper<\/strong>. Yellowlegs (Greater and Lesser) and Solitary Sandpiper numbers were way down, but many Least Sandpipers continued.<\/p>\n

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~I had to include this photo for the craziness factor. I was on my way to the Camel Farm and this adult Bald Eagle was being harassed by several crows. The eagle seemed to want to pick up a freshly killed squirrel on the road, but the crows gave it such a hard time that eventually it gave up.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made a quick, uneventful stop at the viewing platform at the Liberty Loop, and then headed over to Pochuck Mountain State Park. At first the trail seemed quiet, but as I made my way up the mountain a bit, I started to get some birds. Highlights included my FOY Veery and SWAINSON’S THRUSH. It was getting late, so I did not go very far up the trail but still managed to find 24 species.<\/p>\n

It was a productive and satisfying day for me – I feel a little bit like I am back up to speed with this year’s migration. I totaled 71 species for the day, which I was tracking since the Mearns Bird Club’s Break 100 is just five days away.<\/p>\n

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~I finally got a decent look and a photo of a Blue-winged Warbler. Pochuck Mountain SP, 05\/14\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Scarlet Tanager at Elks Brox Memorial Park, 05\/14\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time of year it’s easy for me to feel like migration is just flying by (no pun intended) and leaving me\u00a0in the dust. I had a busy week, so I didn’t get out as much as I would have liked, and then Saturday ended up being a total wash out.\u00a0So, when Sunday morning rolled … Continue reading “Satisfying Sunday Birding, 05\/14\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7099","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-1Qv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","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=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}