{"id":11158,"date":"2021-10-24T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T21:18:18","slug":"sunday-shots-10-24-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11158","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 10\/24\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went out to the black dirt first thing this morning with American Pipits on my mind. I wasn’t disappointed; I saw many (hundreds) and I was able to get some decent photos in the early morning light. Sparrows were also abundant with Savannah and Song Sparrows being most abundant. I did see a couple of White-crowned Sparrow and caught a brief glimpse of a Vesper as well. In the afternoon I went back to Mt. Peter Hawkwatch and counted with official counter Will Test. It was pretty good flight while I was there with a decent flow of birds and good variety (Sharp-shinned, Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, Cooper’s, Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle, and Osprey). Interestingly, Turkey Vultures continued to move through; we counted 120+ while I was there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Pipit in flight, black dirt 10\/24\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the week I spent some time in my yard – it’s been pretty birdy recently. I added Blue-headed Vireo to my 2021 yard list and the vultures are roosting in large numbers, probably 50-60 birds, mostly Turkey but with a handful of Black Vultures too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Pipit on the road in the Black Dirt Region, 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-crowned Sparrow in the black dirt, 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Savannah Sparrow on a nice perch in the black dirt, 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I’ve never seen an American Pipit perch on vegetation before, but today I saw several doing this. BDR, 10\/24\/21.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the backyard, 10\/21\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Turkey Vulture coming in to roost in our backyard, 10\/21\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A more typical look at an American Pipit in the black dirt, 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Blackpoll Warblers are still sticking around. This one was in the black dirt this morning, 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Savannah Sparrow in the BDR 10\/24\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went out to the black dirt first thing this morning with American Pipits on my mind. I wasn’t disappointed; I saw many (hundreds) and I was able to get some decent photos in the early morning light. Sparrows were also abundant with Savannah and Song Sparrows being most abundant. I did see a couple … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 10\/24\/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":[23,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2TY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","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=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}