{"id":12675,"date":"2023-08-15T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2023-08-15T20:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:16:14","slug":"excellent-shorebirding-08-15-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12675","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Shorebirding, 08\/15\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This evening after work, I went to the Black Dirt Region to follow up on several reports of a good variety of shorebirds. I expected today to be good (it might have been good timing for a personal day), after the storms that came through the area last night. I joined Diane Bliss and Kyle Knapp and I thoroughly enjoyed a pleasant evening with some fabulous birds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Black-bellied Plover (1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Semipalmated Plover (3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Killdeer (35+)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Least Sandpiper (16)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pectoral Sandpiper (7)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Semipalmated Sandpiper (5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Short-billed Dowitcher (4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-SBDO-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Short-billed Dowitcher in the black dirt, 08\/15\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/081523-BBPL.jpg 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Black-bellied Plover in the Black Dirt Region, 098\/15\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening after work, I went to the Black Dirt Region to follow up on several reports of a good variety of shorebirds. I expected today to be good (it might have been good timing for a personal day), after the storms that came through the area last night. I joined Diane Bliss and Kyle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excellent Shorebirding, 08\/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":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3ir","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","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=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12678,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}