{"id":14166,"date":"2025-05-10T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:59:08","slug":"oc-shorebirds-05-10-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14166","title":{"rendered":"OC Shorebirds, 05\/10\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday evening, and then again first thing this morning, I was out in the Black Dirt Region, looking for shorebirds in the all the puddling from the recent heavy rains. Between the two days, at a couple different locations, I had a total of 8 shorebird species:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wilson&#8217;s Snipe (1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spotted Sandpiper (4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solitary Sandpiper (9)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lesser Yellowlegs (14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greater Yellowlegs (3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DUNLIN (3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Least Sandpiper (84)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER (3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-2048x1639.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LEYE-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Lesser Yellowlegs in the black dirt, 05\/10\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-SPSA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Close up of a Spotted Sandpiper in the Black Dirt Region, 05\/10\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-2048x1639.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/050925-SOSA-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~I kind of like this photo. Solitary Sandpiper, in the rain,  on a pile of onions,  in the black dirt region, 05\/09\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/051025-LESA-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Least Sandpipers in flight, 05\/10\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, and then again first thing this morning, I was out in the Black Dirt Region, looking for shorebirds in the all the puddling from the recent heavy rains. Between the two days, at a couple different locations, I had a total of 8 shorebird species:<\/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-14166","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-3Gu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14166","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=14166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14173,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14166\/revisions\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}