{"id":11384,"date":"2022-01-08T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T00:10:00","slug":"excellent-day-in-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11384","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Day in OC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went to the black dirt this morning and was able to catch up with 3 of my 4 target birds. Early on I got a distant look at my first Rough-legged Hawk of the season, a beautiful light morph bird. A little later I caught up with a flock of Horned Larks; I looked through them and found a single Snow Bunting and a single Lapland Longspur. I tried for the Greater White-fronted Goose which has been reported at the Route 1 pond, but no luck there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Always a favorite, Lapland Longspur in the black dirt, 01\/08\/22~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon I headed to Newburgh. I dipped on the Golden Eagle at Storm King State Park, but I cleaned up with gulls, tallying 6 species: Ring-billed, Herring, Great Black-backed, FRANKLIN’S, Iceland, and Glaucous. What a refreshing, cold, beautiful day of birding. Beats sitting at the desk like I did all week, that’s for sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Horned Lark in the black dirt, 01\/08\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I was happy to get the Franklin’s Gull for my 2022 list. Newburgh Waterfront, 01\/08\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Ravens on a deer carcass in the black dirt, 01\/08\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I wanted to include this photo as well because it’s really cool to see the Common Ravens alongside the American Crows. Black dirt, 01\/08\/22.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the black dirt this morning and was able to catch up with 3 of my 4 target birds. Early on I got a distant look at my first Rough-legged Hawk of the season, a beautiful light morph bird. A little later I caught up with a flock of Horned Larks; I looked … Continue reading “Excellent Day in OC”<\/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":[23,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-gulls","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2XC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","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=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}