{"id":7144,"date":"2017-05-23T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T00:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2017-05-23T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T00:46:21","slug":"super-birding-at-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr-052317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"Super Birding at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 05\/23\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Exciting day for me today! One of two life birds, a DICKCISSEL perching on a thistle at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 05\/23\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After work today, I\u00a0was finally\u00a0going to make it out to Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge after work today to go for the DICKCISSEL<\/strong> that has been seen there in recent days. Little did I know that\u00a0today would be an extra lucky day for me.<\/p>\n

As I headed out towards the south blind, where the Dickcissel has been seen, I looked out that way and there was a relatively large crowd of birders there. This surprised me because I thought most had come for the Dickcissel already, but I continued to make my way out towards the crowd. About halfway out, I got a text message from Karen Miller – they were on a HENSLOW’S SPARROW<\/strong>! That explained the big crowd! I picked up my pace and joined the group, many of which I ended up knowing. Shortly after my arrival, the sparrow\u00a0started calling and then jumped up and perched nicely. It was so exciting! Meanwhile, I was still concerned about whether or not the Dickcissel was still around and I was assured that it was. It wasn’t more than five minutes later that the Dickcissel made an appearance, perching nicely in the distance on a thistle. That made for 2 life birds in a matter of minutes! I certainly wouldn’t have predicted that this morning! As John Haas told me once – you never know when the next big thing will hit! Super exciting birding!<\/p>\n

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~WOW! HENSLOW’S SPARROW at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 05\/23\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Singing Dickcissel at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 05\/23\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After work today, I\u00a0was finally\u00a0going to make it out to Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge after work today to go for the DICKCISSEL that has been seen there in recent days. Little did I know that\u00a0today would be an extra lucky day for me. As I headed out towards the south blind, where the Dickcissel … Continue reading “Super Birding at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, 05\/23\/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_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":[25,15,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-rarities","category-shawangunk-grasslands-nwr","category-ulster-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1Re","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}