{"id":10871,"date":"2021-05-30T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:33:55","slug":"good-oc-shorebirding-05-30-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10871","title":{"rendered":"Good OC Shorebirding, 05\/30\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning I was put off by the cold temperatures and the incessant rain, so it took me a little while to work up the gumption to go out. Once I did, it was totally worth it. I ran around southern Orange County, hoping for shorebirds. I came up with just the usuals in my first four stops, the usuals being: Least Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, Solitary Sandpiper and Spotted Sanpiper. But, when I got to Skinners Lane, that all changed and I got some really good birds: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (23)<\/li><li>SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER (7)<\/li><li>Killdeer (4)<\/li><li>DUNLIN (6)<\/li><li>Least Sandpiper (2)<\/li><li>Greater Yellowlegs (1)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-SEPL.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~The Semi-palmated Plovers weren&#8217;t close by any means, but they were miles closer than the rest of the birds. Semiplover at Skinners Lane, 05\/30\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As is usually the case, the birds were distant, so no good pics. But &#8211; shorebirds in OC! I was pretty pumped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/053021-BBPL-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~Six Dunlin (front left in puddle), and seven Black-bellied Plovers, Skinners Lane 05\/31\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was put off by the cold temperatures and the incessant rain, so it took me a little while to work up the gumption to go out. Once I did, it was totally worth it. I ran around southern Orange County, hoping for shorebirds. I came up with just the usuals in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good OC Shorebirding, 05\/30\/21&#8221;<\/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":[6,34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-shorebirds","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2Pl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","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=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10875,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}