{"id":7702,"date":"2017-12-23T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2017-12-23T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:43:23","slug":"orange-county-iceland-gulls-12-23-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Iceland Gulls, 12\/23\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7703\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7703\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU4-Edit.jpg 1615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Beautiful bird. ICELAND GULL at the Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/23\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I headed back to the Newburgh Waterfront this morning &#8211; I was mostly hoping for a Great Cormorant to add to my OC year list, but really I was just hoping for some good birds. The waterfront was a little more productive than last weekend. I never had any luck with cormorants, but \u00a0from the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry parking lot, I had my first RED-BREASTED MERGANSER of the season, a male that was with a raft of 40 or so Common Mergansers. Then, from the Blu Pointe Restaurant parking lot, I located two very beautiful ICELAND GULLS. It was raining pretty good all morning, so I wasn&#8217;t carrying my camera. I ran back to my car for it, and the birds had stayed pretty close to the shore, allowing for some decent shots in \u00a0spite of the lack of light. I was thrilled, the birds were just awesome to see and I enjoyed a prolonged look at them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7704\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7704\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7704\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/122317-ICGU5.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Eventually the birds swam close enough together for a shot of both birds. Iceland Gulls at Newburgh Waterfront, 12\/23\/17.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed back to the Newburgh Waterfront this morning &#8211; I was mostly hoping for a Great Cormorant to add to my OC year list, but really I was just hoping for some good birds. The waterfront was a little more productive than last weekend. I never had any luck with cormorants, but \u00a0from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Iceland Gulls, 12\/23\/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-7702","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-20e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","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=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7706,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}