{"id":15164,"date":"2021-11-12T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2022-02-14T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:07:44","slug":"bombay-hook-november-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/bombay-hook-november-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay Hook, November 10, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bombay Hook, November 10, 2021<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
November 10, 2021<\/p>

It was a beautiful day to enjoy the last colors of Fall and the first waterfowl of Winter. Even on Nov. 10 we didn\u2019t need coats or gloves.<\/p>

The Bombay Hook refuge on the Delaware side of the bay is always a pleasing birding destination. Most of the dabbling ducks were there, and looking fresh in their post-eclipse plumage. We saw Ruddy Ducks, Wigeon, Pintails, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall and more. A few Pied-billed Grebes came close enough to be photographed.<\/p>

A few species of shorebirds which typically winter in the Delaware region were present in good numbers; we saw several hundred Greater Yellowlegs, 60+ Avocets, a few hundred Dunlin, and just a few lingering Dowitchers, probably Long-billed.<\/p>

The herons were not all gone; there were some Great Egrets, some Great Blue Herons, one Snowy Egret. We couldn\u2019t find a Little Blue Heron reported by others.\u00a0 Harriers, Red-tails, a Kestrel and some not-very-close Bald Eagles made up the raptor list.<\/p>

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Participants: Joe Costanza, Holly Hoffman, Robert Koch, Laurie Larson, Mary Walter, Mike Zickler.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Bird List:<\/p>

Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Avocet
Dunlin
\u201cPeep\u201d (Semi or Western Sandpiper)
Long-billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster\u2019s Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Kestrel
American Crow
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
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It was a beautiful day to enjoy the last colors of Fall and the first waterfowl of Winter. Even on Nov. 10 we didn\u2019t need heavy coats or gloves. The Bombay Hook refuge on the Delaware side of the bay is always a pleasing birding destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15407,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions\/15407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}