{"id":8108,"date":"2018-05-01T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2018-05-01T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:00:40","slug":"orange-county-cattle-egret-05-01-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8108","title":{"rendered":"Orange County CATTLE EGRET! 05\/01\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8109\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8109\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8109\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-CAEG-Edit.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~CATTLE EGRET flies over the platform at the Liberty Marsh this evening, 05\/01\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This evening I met up with Linda Scrima and Maria Loukeris at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Liberty Marsh. We were following \u00a0up on a second \u00a0hand report by Ken McDermott, from earlier in the day, of a CATTLE EGRET at the marsh. We had a pretty fabulous night of birding, with 4 species of shorebirds being seen right along Oil City Road (Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Wilson&#8217;s Snipe, and Solitary Sandpiper). An American Bittern called as soon as I got out of the car, and Linda got a sweet shot of one in flight (see below). Sora could be heard calling from just east of the viewing platform. And then, the CATTLE EGRET flew out of the marsh and right over the platform! It headed north and settled down just off of Liberty Lane. It didn&#8217;t stay there for long, however, it picked up and, lucky for us, put down about 100 yards out from the viewing platform. Excellent, lucky night of birding!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8111\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8111\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit-1200x960.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-AMBI-LINDA-Edit.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Wow! American Bittern in flight at the Liberty Loop, 05\/01\/18. Photo by Linda Scrima.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8110\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8110\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050118-LEYE.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Lesser Yellowlegs at the Liberty Loop, 05\/01\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I met up with Linda Scrima and Maria Loukeris at the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Liberty Marsh. We were following \u00a0up on a second \u00a0hand report by Ken McDermott, from earlier in the day, of a CATTLE EGRET at the marsh. We had a pretty fabulous night of birding, with 4 species &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County CATTLE EGRET! 05\/01\/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":[25,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-26M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","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=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}