{"id":14079,"date":"2025-03-16T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14079"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:52:56","slug":"sunday-shots-03-16-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14079","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 03\/16\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a low key weekend of birding for me. I stayed local, checking the area lakes each morning and then hitting the black dirt. I didn&#8217;t have anything too exciting, but I did add (4) new species to my Orange County 2025 list. That brought my species total to (93). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, My Yard 03\/13\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horned Grebe, Round Lake 03\/16\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rusty Blackbird, Black Dirt Region 03\/16\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Pipit, Black Dirt Region 03\/16\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos were tough to come by, but I did manage to get a few raptor shots in my travels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-BLVU.jpg 1576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Black Vulture portait. Black Dirt Region, 03\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031625-RTHA.jpg 1882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Red-tailed Hawk on some farm machinery in the black dirt, 03\/16\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA-1200x960.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/031325-RSHA.jpg 1711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, our yard, 03\/13\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a low key weekend of birding for me. I stayed local, checking the area lakes each morning and then hitting the black dirt. I didn&#8217;t have anything too exciting, but I did add (4) new species to my Orange County 2025 list. That brought my species total to (93). Photos were tough to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots, 03\/16\/25&#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_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":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3F5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079","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=14079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}