{"id":8051,"date":"2018-04-19T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2018-04-19T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:38:30","slug":"a-nice-night-04-19-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8051","title":{"rendered":"A Nice Night, 04\/19\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8052\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8052\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8052\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-COLO-2.jpg 1347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~This Common Loon popped up right near me! I guess I was not optimistic about photos because my camera was still packed away. I had to get it out quickly but without any sudden movements to grab this shot. Wickham Lake, 04\/19\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After spending the weekend out of town, and then feeling a little under the weather earlier in the week, it was good to get out and do some productive local birding. At work today I saw multiple reports from Scotty Baldinger and Karen Miller of good waterfowl in Sullivan County, including Common Loons, Horned Grebes, G. Scaup at Kiamesha Lake and more Common Loons, Red-breasted Merganser, and best of all &#8211; SURF SCOTERS at Swan Lake. This had me raring to go at the end of the work day to see if I could find any good waterfowl in Orange County. I had time to stop at my two usual spots &#8211; Wickham Lake and Glenmere Lake. Wickham was the more productive stop &#8211; I had 3 Common Loons, 4 Horned Grebes, and my Osprey \u00a0of the year in OC. Glenmere was less exciting, but I did have a pair of Lesser Scaup and I also had my first Barn Swallow of the year at the small pond up the road from the lake. It was a nice night to be out and I took a moment to appreciated it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8053\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8053\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8053\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041918-RNDU.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Awww. A pair of Ring-necked Ducks look into each others eyes \u00a0at the small pond near Glenmere Lake, 04\/19\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the weekend out of town, and then feeling a little under the weather earlier in the week, it was good to get out and do some productive local birding. At work today I saw multiple reports from Scotty Baldinger and Karen Miller of good waterfowl in Sullivan County, including Common Loons, Horned Grebes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Nice Night, 04\/19\/18&#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_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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-25R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051","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=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}