{"id":13573,"date":"2024-07-21T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13573"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:05:27","slug":"sunday-shots-07-21-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13573","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 07\/21\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was an uneventful weekend of birding for me; pretty much what you would expect in late July.  My focus was looking for shorebirds in the county, but I was unable to turn up any new species.  Good conditions continue at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, in spite of the recent rainfall, but I was only able to locate Killdeer, Least Sandpipers, and Spotted Sandpipers. Bullville Pond looks pretty good too; I only had a couple Killdeer and and single Least Sandpiper there. And in the black dirt, I was only finding Killdeer as far as shorebirds go.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124-RTHA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~This is a beautiful beast. Red-tailed Hawk on Missionland Road this morning, 07\/21\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-2048x1639.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-PEFA-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Peregrine Falcon in the black dirt, 07\/20\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072024-EUST.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~European Starlings in the black dirt, o7\/20\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an uneventful weekend of birding for me; pretty much what you would expect in late July. My focus was looking for shorebirds in the county, but I was unable to turn up any new species. Good conditions continue at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, in spite of the recent rainfall, but I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots, 07\/21\/24&#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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13573","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-3wV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573","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=13573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13577,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}