{"id":13624,"date":"2024-08-24T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2024-08-24T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T19:03:58","slug":"saturday-shots-08-24-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=13624","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Shots, 08\/24\/24?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, it’s Saturday Shots this week. Tomorrow, very excitingly, I head to Cape Cod to go on a two-day pelagic trip, so I will not be able to post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you might expect, locally my focus remains on shorebird migration. After work on Thursday I went out to the black dirt; I found very few shorebirds but I had a nice experience with a Northern Harrier in the beautiful evening light. This morning was a little more successful regarding shorebirds – just as I was leaving the house, Kyle Knapp texted me to let me know he had three American Golden-Plovers in the black dirt. The birds stuck around for my arrival, but unfortunately they were quite distant, so while I enjoyed decent scope views, photos were out of the question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Northern Harrier in flight, Black Dirt Region, 08\/22\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also tried 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary later in the morning. Conditions are still poor for shorebirds, and probably for waders as well (I had just a handful of Great Blue Herons). My highlight was running into a mixed flock of songbirds on my way back to the car. Birds included: Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Gray Catbirds, and a couple of Black-capped Chickadees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Red-eyed Vireo at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/24\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I have this as a Blackburnian Warbler. I can’t remember if I’ve ever had this species during fall migration before. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/24\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Northern Harrier in the black dirt, 08\/22\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Red-tailed Hawk at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/24\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the Red-eyed Vireo, 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary 08\/24\/24.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, it’s Saturday Shots this week. Tomorrow, very excitingly, I head to Cape Cod to go on a two-day pelagic trip, so I will not be able to post. As you might expect, locally my focus remains on shorebird migration. After work on Thursday I went out to the black dirt; I found very few … Continue reading “Saturday Shots, 08\/24\/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_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":[11,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3xK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","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=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13632,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions\/13632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}