{"id":764,"date":"2012-12-22T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2012-12-22T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T01:18:19","slug":"northern-shrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"NORTHERN SHRIKE!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northern Shrike off of Corbett Road in Montgomery NY 12-22-12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seeing the above Northern Shrike<\/a> was the highlight of a great Saturday of birding. Huge thanks to John Haas and Bill and Jayne Fiero who found the bird during the Eastern Orange County Christmas Bird Count (see John’s blog post about it here<\/a>). Also many thanks to Ken McDermott who was also out at Corbett Road and let me know exactly where he had seen the bird earlier in the day. And finally, congratulations to Jeff Goulding who was having a tough day. The Northern Shrike was a life bird for him and I’m sure it made his day just a little bit better.<\/p>\n

I started the morning off with a quick stop at Orange-Rockland Lake. I have been stopping by there fairly regularly and finding good numbers of both Ruddy Ducks and Ring-necked Ducks. This morning was no different:<\/p>\n

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I can’t get enough of these Ruddy Ducks. This one was doing some serious grooming whenI was taking photos. Orange-Rockland Lake 12-22-12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ring-necked Ducks at Orange-Rockland Lake, 12-22-12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My next stop was at Brown’s Pond, where I found an incredible variety of waterfowl in huge numbers:<\/p>\n

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Lesser Scaup, Brown’s Pond 12-22-12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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