{"id":13521,"date":"2024-06-30T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13521"},"modified":"2024-06-30T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T19:59:38","slug":"wow-orange-county-american-avocet-06-30-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13521","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Orange County AMERICAN AVOCET, 06\/30\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I woke up this morning with shorebirds on my mind. My early stops (Camel Farm, Liberty Loop, & and Beaver Pond) didn’t yield any, with the exception of Killdeer. My final stop, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, however, had a doozy in store for me – an AMERICAN AVOCET. After scanning for a while and only finding more Killdeer, I was shocked to see an American Avocet in my scope view. I put the word out, and several birders came and enjoyed the bird. Additionally, after I left, Jeanne Cimorelli located a Short-billed Dowitcher, another excellent bird for the county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Exciting stuff! American Avocet at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 06\/30\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Another look at today’s bird of the day -American Avocet at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 06\/30\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In other news, on Saturday morning, I went to Hickok Brook Multiple Use Area to try for Ruffed Grouse. Historically a good spot for grouse, I did not have any luck yesterday. I enjoyed a pleasant 5.25 mile walk, which was birdy and I enjoyed seeing my first porcupine of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Porcupine chowing on a leaf at Hickok Brook MUA, 06\/29\/23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I heard MANY Black-throated Green Warblers at Hickok Brook on Saturday, 06\/29\/24, but only a few were actually seen. The lighting was terrible all morning so super high ISO for these photos.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A young American Robin at Beaver Pond, 06\/30\/24.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Great Blue Heron in flight at Liberty Loop, 06\/30\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I woke up this morning with shorebirds on my mind. My early stops (Camel Farm, Liberty Loop, & and Beaver Pond) didn’t yield any, with the exception of Killdeer. My final stop, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, however, had a doozy in store for me – an AMERICAN AVOCET. After scanning for a while and … Continue reading “Wow! Orange County AMERICAN AVOCET, 06\/30\/24”<\/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":[11,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3w5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521","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=13521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}