{"id":8382,"date":"2018-08-05T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2018-08-05T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:03:07","slug":"least-bitterns-08-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8382","title":{"rendered":"Least Bitterns, 08\/05\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8383\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8383 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-2-Edit.jpg 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Dudgeon and I spent some time very early this morning with the LEAST BITTERNS at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Liberty Loop. It was great to see good numbers of LEBIs, and we got lucky with one particularly accommodating individual, which landed not very far off the path &#8211; I&#8217;ve included four photos of this bird.<\/p>\n<p>In birding news, Karen Miller watched the ROSEATE SPOONBILL fly north over Oil City Road and into Orange County. Kyle and I searched for the bird down Liberty Lane, and John Haas joined us to help search the area, but unfortunately, as of this writing, the bird had not been relocated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8386\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8386 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-7-Edit.jpg 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8384\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-4-Edit-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-4-Edit-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-4-Edit-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-4-Edit-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-4-Edit.jpg 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8387\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/080518-LEBI-Edit.jpg 1670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Dudgeon and I spent some time very early this morning with the LEAST BITTERNS at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge&#8217;s Liberty Loop. It was great to see good numbers of LEBIs, and we got lucky with one particularly accommodating individual, which landed not very far off the path &#8211; I&#8217;ve included four photos of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Least Bitterns, 08\/05\/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":[28,19,13,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-photos","category-sussexcounty","category-walkingwaterbirds","category-wallkillwildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2bc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","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=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}