{"id":9867,"date":"2020-02-08T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2020-02-08T19:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T00:17:30","slug":"heckuva-day-02-08-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva Day, 02\/08\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I was heading out this morning, I drove along 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, and I saw in the distance a pair of Red-tailed Hawks perched in a tree. They were about 15 feet apart, and in the perfect early morning light the difference between the larger female and the smaller male was quite obvious. It was a beautiful image, and for some reason I took this as an omen that it was going to be a good day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~ It’s still hard for me to believe that we are getting to see a GOLDEN EAGLE on a somewhat regular basis right now. GOEA in the black dirt, 02\/08\/20.~<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Every once in a while you have a day where things fall into place. It started with a GREAT-HORNED OWL on a nice perch, sunning itself. Add to that several flocks of Snow Geese moving around the black dirt. The icing on the cake was a relatively low flyover by the GOLDEN EAGLE that has been in the area. Getting a better look and photos of this bird was my main goal today, so that was awesome. As the morning ended and crept into the afternoon, things slowed down, but still, I was happy to find a cooperative Red-tailed Hawk on a wire, a bunch of vultures on a deer carcass (not for everyone, but I love those birds and find them very photogenic), and a couple thousand Common Mergansers at Greenwood Lake. Heckuva day for sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Snow Geese in the black dirt, 02\/08\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Black Vulture enjoying a meal. Warwick NY, 02\/08\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~GREAT-HORNED OWL sunning itself at an undisclosed location, 02\/08\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I’m not usually a big fan of birds on a wire, but it’s been a while since I’ve taken a Red-tailed Hawk photo. Black Dirt, 02\/08\/20. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Beautifully ugly bird. Turkey Vulture in Warwick, 02\/08\/20.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the GOLDEN EAGLE. I know I definitely shouldn’t complain, but the light was tough for pics of this bird. Black dirt, 02\/08\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I was heading out this morning, I drove along 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, and I saw in the distance a pair of Red-tailed Hawks perched in a tree. They were about 15 feet apart, and in the perfect early morning light the difference between the larger female and the smaller male was quite … Continue reading “Heckuva Day, 02\/08\/20”<\/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":[6,19,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2z9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","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=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9882,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}