{"id":8377,"date":"2018-08-04T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:24:19","slug":"08-04-18-orange-county-whimbrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8377","title":{"rendered":"08\/04\/18 &#8211; Orange County WHIMBREL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8379\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8379\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8379\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8379\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-2-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-2-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-2-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Wow! Whimbrel in the rain at Skinner Lane, 08\/04\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last night and this morning I was having a feeling we might get a good bird in the county today. For some reason I was thinking it would happen at Turtle Bay, but instead it was at Skinner Lane, where I located a WHIMBREL in the rain around 7:30 this morning. I was super pumped; I put the word out and several birders were able to run for the bird. Rob Stone, John Haas, Karen Miller, Kathy Ashman, and Bruce Nott all saw the bird while I was still there; it was a lifer for both Kathy and Bruce. Clay Spencer reported the bird in the late morning as well. Whimbrel is a bird I have daydreamed of finding in our area for a while, and it is the 252nd bird on my Orange County life list.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8380\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8380\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8380\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-WHIM.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~WHIMBREL at Skinner Lane, 08\/01\/18. Other shorebirds present include: approximately 40 Killdeer, 1 Least Sandpiper, 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8378\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8378\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8378\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8378\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080418-KILL.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~I, of course, ran around the area looking for more shorebirds but did not come up with much. Pine Island Turf Nursery had several Killdeer and a Spotted Sandpiper. Camel Farm had several Killdeer. Turtle Bay had 8 Least Sandpipers and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers (as well as several Killdeer). This Killdeer was at PITN, 08\/04\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night and this morning I was having a feeling we might get a good bird in the county today. For some reason I was thinking it would happen at Turtle Bay, but instead it was at Skinner Lane, where I located a WHIMBREL in the rain around 7:30 this morning. I was super pumped; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;08\/04\/18 &#8211; Orange County WHIMBREL!&#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":[23,25,6,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-new-york-state","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2b7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}