{"id":11873,"date":"2022-08-07T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11873"},"modified":"2022-08-07T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:56:57","slug":"sunday-shots-08-07-22-things-are-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=11873","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/07\/22 – Things are Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least shorebirds are moving to some extent at this point. You probably saw that I had an UPLAND SANDPIPER on Friday evening. On Saturday no one appears to have relocated the Uppy, but Bruce Nott did find 3 Caspian Terns at Cornwall Bay, and later in the evening I tried for the Uppy again and was rewarded with a flyover of 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. I actually picked them up in a distant field, but they picked up an flew; as far as I know they didn’t return. It’s refreshing to see that fall migration is beginning; let’s hope for a good one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Least Bittern fledgling at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/06\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Young Cooper’s Hawk in my yard, 08\/05\/22. It looks like this bird is flying right at me, but actually I was hidden in my screened in porch and the bird flew directly over.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~My first Black-bellied Plovers of the season. It seems early to me, but I was thrilled to see them on Saturday, 08\/06\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of nearly 20 Horned Lark fledglings I saw in the black dirt on Friday night, 08\/05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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~A couple of young Brown-headed Cowbirds in the black dirt, 08;05\/22.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least shorebirds are moving to some extent at this point. You probably saw that I had an UPLAND SANDPIPER on Friday evening. On Saturday no one appears to have relocated the Uppy, but Bruce Nott did find 3 Caspian Terns at Cornwall Bay, and later in the evening I tried for the Uppy again … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/07\/22 – Things are Happening”<\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-35v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873","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=11873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11880,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873\/revisions\/11880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}