{"id":10628,"date":"2021-02-07T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2021-02-07T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:39:48","slug":"sunday-shots-02-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10628","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 02\/07\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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~Huge thanks to Linda Scrima who relocated the Ferruginous Hawk Sunday morning in the snow, 02\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll tell you what, I could get used to the good birding I’ve been enjoying recently. It was another excellent weekend, filled with some super birds and some decent photo ops. I spent both mornings tooling around the black dirt; highlights included a total of 4 LAPLAND LONGSPURS between the two days, a nice sized flock of COMMON REDPOLLS, and my second (and much better) look at the FERRUGINOUS HAWK which continues in the black dirt. I spent Saturday afternoon over in Beacon with Bruce Nott and we did really well with gulls – we had a GLAUCOUS GULL, an ICELAND GULL, and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, all immature birds, as well as the three expected species. It was freezing cold with a strong wind on that side of the river, but worth the suffering. This is ending up being a photo heavy post, so I’ll just let the pics do the rest of the talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~A nice look at a Rough-legged Hawk just after sunrise on Saturday morning, 02\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lapland Longspur taking off with several Horned Larks, black dirt 02\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~The Glaucous Gull was really showing who is the boss of the ice floes. I absolutely cannot get enough gulls this year, and the gulling has just been fantastic. GLGU in Beacon, 02\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This was a nice surprise, a couple of Short-eared Owls up briefly on Saturday morning. I think some American Crows rousted them from their daytime noosing. ~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Beautiful MODO, black dirt 02\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Redpolls in the black dirt 02\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the FEHA, 02\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Lark in nice light early Saturday Morning, 02\/06\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Posting this photo right after the HOLA shot really accentuates the different light between the two days. Sunny and clear on Saturday, Snowy and gray on Sunday.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I saw two Coyotes this weekend, both distant. This one might not have been close, but you can see it is well aware of my presence.~ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll tell you what, I could get used to the good birding I’ve been enjoying recently. It was another excellent weekend, filled with some super birds and some decent photo ops. I spent both mornings tooling around the black dirt; highlights included a total of 4 LAPLAND LONGSPURS between the two days, a nice sized … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 02\/07\/21”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-raptors","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Lq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","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=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}