{"id":1209999,"date":"2018-09-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=bf498ba9c59c3cdf8da03e6cde471261"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:36:16","slug":"random-fall-birds-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/random-fall-birds-and-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random fall birds and thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall might be my favorite season. It has a mysterious feel about it that I can’t quite put my finger on.<\/p>\n

I love the smell of burning firewood on a cool night, fresh-picked apples, seeing the decorative pumpkins, camping out in a tent and especially the colorful foliage.<\/p>\n

I don’t like the term leaf-peeping though. It sounds like a crime. I prefer saying that I’m going on a fall foliage ride.<\/p>\n

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The Girl With Something Extra: There was a show that ran 1 season from 1973-1974 starring Sally Field and John Davidson called “The Girl With Something Extra”. I tend to remember the titles of a lot of shows from the 1970’s since there was only 3 major channels on television at the time.<\/p>\n

I was a little surprised when I first found out that it was the females that have that orange breast band (also juveniles to a lesser extent) and not the male.<\/p>\n

I used that show title as a way of remembering that fact.<\/p>\n

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My most underrated piece of birding equipment: I don’t know what took me so long to invest in these rubber boots. It allows me to comfortably cover areas that I would normally avoid because I’m not a big fan of wet socks. I’ve been able to find birds that would have eluded me otherwise.<\/p>\n

I headed out to Wangunk Meadows hoping to add a couple of new species to my yearly county list which as 190. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find any new species as the end of the year approaches.<\/p>\n

I was walking around for a couple of hours without any luck.<\/p>\n

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Then there was a “Flicker Of Hope”.<\/p>\n

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I was able to find my first purple Finches of the year. The female has that broad white mark across the head.<\/p>\n

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Then with the help of my trusty boots I was able to stomp through some heavy brush to find the secret hiding place of a 1st winter White-crowned Sparrow.<\/p>\n

It would be nice if October could last twice as long.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to break out the heavier clothing and prepare for November.<\/p>\n

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