{"id":12871,"date":"2023-11-05T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2023-11-05T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T21:32:54","slug":"sunday-shots-11-05-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12871","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 11\/05\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My best birding of the weekend occurred first thing on Saturday morning. I stopped in the black dirt before heading up to Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I was pleased to find a nice sized flock of Horned Larks, and even more so to find a handful of Snow Buntings and a couple Lapland Longspurs. The buntings and longspurs wouldn’t cooperate for photos, so I had to settle for some Horned Lark shots. I went back on Sunday morning, and I don’t know if they moved on or were just laying low, but I had very few larks and no buntings or longspurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Horned Lark in the black dirt, 11\/05\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hawkwatch at Mount Peter was a bust for me. I counted a measly 10 migrating raptors in just over 5 hours. Songbirds were out in force, particularly American Robins, which were moving through in groups of 10-20 birds. I have only one day left in the hawk watching season, next Saturday; I’m hoping for something special to happen on that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Dark-eyed Junco at Mt. Peter Hawkwatch 11\/04\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Crow just after Sunrise in the black dirt, 11\/04\/23.~d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of 4 White-tailed Deer bucks that I saw over the weekend. Black Dirt Region 11\/05\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Horned Lark with what looks like a very short bill to me. BDR 11\/04\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This might be the winner for the species which is heard WAY more than it is seen. Carolina Wren in the black dirt, 11\/05\/23.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My best birding of the weekend occurred first thing on Saturday morning. I stopped in the black dirt before heading up to Mount Peter Hawkwatch. I was pleased to find a nice sized flock of Horned Larks, and even more so to find a handful of Snow Buntings and a couple Lapland Longspurs. The buntings … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 11\/05\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","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-3lB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","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=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12878,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}