{"id":12583,"date":"2023-07-15T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2023-07-15T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T19:47:01","slug":"oc-shorebirds-07-15-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12583","title":{"rendered":"OC Shorebirds, 07\/15\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With all the rain we got in Orange County this week, I was optimistic that we would see some shorebird activity. I went out after work on Monday and searched in the black dirt. Conditions were good, and Killdeer were plentiful. I also saw a decent number of Spotted Sandpipers, a single Solitary Sandpiper, and a handful of Least Sandpipers. This morning my plan was to go hiking at Sterling Forest, but I changed my mind after last night&#8217;s rainfall. Conditions in the black dirt were good again, and I added several Lesser Yellowlegs to the mix. Unfortunately, they were flying model airplanes over the field and the LEYEs flushed before I got any photos. Spotted Sandpipers were more scarce, but I did have close to a dozen Solitary Sandpipers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~A couple of Solitary Sandpipers in the black dirt, 07\/15\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SPSA.jpg 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Spotted Sandpiper in the black dirt, 07\/15\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-2048x1639.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/071523-SOSA-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~One more Solitary Sandpiper. Black Dirt Region 07\/15\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rain we got in Orange County this week, I was optimistic that we would see some shorebird activity. I went out after work on Monday and searched in the black dirt. Conditions were good, and Killdeer were plentiful. I also saw a decent number of Spotted Sandpipers, a single Solitary Sandpiper, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OC Shorebirds, 07\/15\/23&#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_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":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3gX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","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=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}