{"id":14322,"date":"2025-08-05T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:23:34","slug":"oc-bairds-sandpiper-08-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14322","title":{"rendered":"OC Baird&#8217;s Sandpiper 08\/05\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>QUICK POST: I made an impromptu trip to the black dirt this evening after work, hoping for maybe an Upland Sandpiper. It was a beautiful evening with an eerie light due to the smoke in the air from the wildfires in Canada. There were loads of Killdeer to keep my interest up, and although I came up empty regarding the Uppy, I was able to locate a single BAIRD&#8217;S SANDPIPER associating with a small flock of Killdeer in a grassy field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA.jpg 1615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Baird&#8217;s Sandpiper in the black dirt, 08\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/080525-BASA-2.jpg 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~One more look at the BASA in the black dirt, 08\/05\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK POST: I made an impromptu trip to the black dirt this evening after work, hoping for maybe an Upland Sandpiper. It was a beautiful evening with an eerie light due to the smoke in the air from the wildfires in Canada. There were loads of Killdeer to keep my interest up, and although I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OC Baird&#8217;s Sandpiper 08\/05\/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":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3J0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","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=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14326,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/14326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}