{"id":11868,"date":"2022-08-05T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11868"},"modified":"2022-08-05T21:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:26:52","slug":"orange-county-upland-sandpiper-08-05-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11868","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Upland Sandpiper, 08\/05\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tonight after work I headed out to the black dirt again, and I finally caught up with my target bird for this week: UPLAND SANDPIPER! I was having a pleasant evening &#8211; it was birdy enough to keep me interested, it was Friday night, life was good. Then, life became excellent when I spotted an Upland Sandpiper hanging out with a couple of Killdeer. Unfortunately the bird flew not long after I found it. Linda Scrima joined me in the search, and she was able to relocate the bird, but only briefly before it flew again. Try as we might, we were  unable to relocate the bird again before it got too dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-UPSA.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~UPPY in the black dirt, 08\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/080522-FOX-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~High ISO (8000) Red Fox in the black dirt, 08\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight after work I headed out to the black dirt again, and I finally caught up with my target bird for this week: UPLAND SANDPIPER! I was having a pleasant evening &#8211; it was birdy enough to keep me interested, it was Friday night, life was good. Then, life became excellent when I spotted an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Upland Sandpiper, 08\/05\/22&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-35q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868","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=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}