{"id":12664,"date":"2023-08-13T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2023-08-13T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:50:01","slug":"sunday-shots-08-13-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12664","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/13\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After work on Friday I followed up on a report by Diane Bliss of several Purple Martins at Wickham Lake. Fortunately the birds were still present when I arrived, so I was able to take some photos and add them to my 2023 county list. Afterwards I sent to Wisner Road to try for the Sedge Wren that Kyle Knapp located back on July 31st. I didn’t have any luck with the wren, but I went back first thing Saturday morning and heard the bird singing deep in one of the fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Purple Martin at Wickham Lake, 08\/11\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shorebirds were the main focus for me for the rest of the weekend, but unfortunately I was unable to add any new species to my fall migration list. The hotspot for me was the Camel Farm, where I had: Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, Killdeer, and Solitary Sandpipers. The black dirt was loaded with Killdeer and I had several sightings of Least Sandpipers and one Spotted Sandpiper. I saw reports of Upland Sandpiper in the rare bird report, but I didn’t have any luck with them. Anyways, here’s my images from the weekend, I hope you enjoy them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Eastern Kingbird at Wickham Lake, 08\/11\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of a number of Least Sandpipers in the black dirt, 08\/13\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I saw this hawk from a distance and I knew I wanted to get a better look. Patience paid off and I was able to get a decent shot of this Red-tailed Hawk with some unusual and beautiful plumage. Black Dirt Region, 08\/12\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Lesser Yellowlegs at the Camel Farm, 08\/12\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I’m really digging the light and colors in these Eastern Kingbird photos. Wickham Lake 08\/11\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Purple Martins at Wickham Lake, 08\/11\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After work on Friday I followed up on a report by Diane Bliss of several Purple Martins at Wickham Lake. Fortunately the birds were still present when I arrived, so I was able to take some photos and add them to my 2023 county list. Afterwards I sent to Wisner Road to try for the … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/13\/23”<\/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":[6,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3ig","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","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=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12673,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions\/12673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}