{"id":9258,"date":"2019-06-04T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:50:22","slug":"a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9258","title":{"rendered":"A Different Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As birders, we are really lucky. We are part of what I sometimes think of as a secret club, one that sees the world a little bit differently than everyone else. We have the ability to turn a 3-1\/2 hour car ride from Syracuse from drudgery into our own personal nature film, like I did on Sunday evening.\u00a0 While everyone else is driving along searching in vain to be entertained by the radio, we can just sit back and enjoy the nature show. A Pileated Woodpecker flying across the road to perch on an old wood telephone pole. An American Kestrel hover-hunting over the median. A Red-tailed Hawk being mobbed by a gang of American Crows. An adult Bald Eagle soaring at the treetops, and then a young eagle not long after that.\u00a0Of course much of the drive was just the usuals- but even so, I was getting a kick out of how many Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and Brown-headed Cowbirds you can actually see while traveling on the highway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I had a nice look at this Orchard Oriole in the black dirt this evening, 06\/04\/19.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wrote the above paragraph for the most part on Sunday night when we got home. Coincidentally, on my way to work this morning there was an accident on the Palisades Parkway and traffic was brought to a dead stop. I was late for work, but I didn’t care. I birded from my now stopped car and saw or heard nearly a dozen species of birds while I waited for the traffic to get moving again. I think it’s a nice way to live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Frog Sp. at Wallkill River NWR 05\/31\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Look at the tiny wing on this little dude! Can you believe this gosling will grow up to be a Canada Goose?!?~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Always a favorite – even if it’s a crappy pic. Grasshopper Sparrow in the Black Dirt, 06\/04\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A White-tailed Deer taking a dip at Wallkill River NWR, 05\/31\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As birders, we are really lucky. We are part of what I sometimes think of as a secret club, one that sees the world a little bit differently than everyone else. We have the ability to turn a 3-1\/2 hour car ride from Syracuse from drudgery into our own personal nature film, like I did … Continue reading “A Different Perspective”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2pk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}