{"id":12765,"date":"2023-09-18T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2023-09-18T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T01:00:34","slug":"sensational-shorebirding-09-18-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"Sensational Shorebirding, 09\/18\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone knows at this point that bad weather typically equals excellent birding. This evening after work I followed up on several reports of shorebirds in the black dirt. When I left the house, it was raining cats and dogs. But, by the time I arrived in the black dirt, it had slowed down and there were some clear skies in the distance. At first I was viewing the birds from inside my car, using my window mount for the scope. As it slowed up, Linda Scrima joined me; eventually it cleared up and we were treated to a beautiful double rainbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Rainbow in the Black Dirt Region, 09\/18\/23. It was really cool because the shorebirds were located in the field directly under the end of the rainbow.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had an excellent assortment of shorebirds: Killdeer (35), Semipalmated Plover (1), Black-bellied Plover (4), American Golden-Plover (30), Semipalmated Sandpiper (1), Pectoral Sandpiper (45), and a flyover of (6) Short-billed Dowitchers. Pipits were flying over calling. All with a beautiful rainbow, allowing for some really interesting photo ops. What a night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Plovers flying through the rainbow. Black Dirt Region 09\/18\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~PLovers doing their thing in the BDR, 09\/18\/23.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A more conventional shot of the flock of Black-bellied and American Golden-Plovers in the black dirt this evening, 09\/18\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more rainbow\/plover shote. Black Dirt Region, 09\/18\/23.!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows at this point that bad weather typically equals excellent birding. This evening after work I followed up on several reports of shorebirds in the black dirt. When I left the house, it was raining cats and dogs. But, by the time I arrived in the black dirt, it had slowed down and there … Continue reading “Sensational Shorebirding, 09\/18\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[23,6,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3jT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","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=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12776,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}