{"id":14295,"date":"2025-07-27T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:33:43","slug":"sunday-shots-an-overdose-of-cuteness-07-27-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14295","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots -An Overdose of Cuteness, 07\/27\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday morning I birded the area, hoping for some new fall shorebird arrivals. Unfortunately, I did not add any new species to my list from last week, and I had a total of only 4 shorebird species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Black Dirt: Killdeer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camel Farm: Killdeer and Least Sandpipers (2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liberty Marsh Platform: Solitary Sandpipers (2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beaver Pond: Killdeer and Solitary Sandpipers (5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bullville Pond: Killdeer, Least Sandpipers (2), Solitary Sandpipers (2), and Spotted Sandpiper (1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary: Killdeer and Least Sandpipers (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlight for me was spending some quality time with a young Killdeer foraging under a sprinkler in the black dirt, so I&#8217;ll leave you with an overdose of cuteness. All photos taken on 07\/26\/25 in the Black Dirt Region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/072625-KILL-1200x750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 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Unfortunately, I did not add any new species to my list from last week, and I had a total of only 4 shorebird species. The highlight for me was spending some quality time with a young Killdeer foraging under a sprinkler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots -An Overdose of Cuteness, 07\/27\/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":[6,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Iz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295","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=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14306,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}