{"id":14327,"date":"2025-08-10T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:43:00","slug":"upland-sandpiper-08-10-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14327","title":{"rendered":"UPLAND SANDPIPER, 08\/10\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally got lucky and found an UPLAND SANDPIPER in the Black Dirt Region this morning. Unfortunately, the bird was absolutely miles out in a field, so pics were very tough (click <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=12679\">here<\/a> to see what an Uppy actually looks like). The bird was jumpy, and I felt like at any moment it might come closer, but, frustratingly, it kept taking short flights and getting further away instead. During one longer flight, the bird was calling while in flight, so that was pretty cool. Several folks came out for the bird; I know a few got it and a few were still trying to relocated it when I finally left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Terrible, distant photos, but what can you do? Upland Sandpiper in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/10\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/081025-UPSA-2.jpg 1189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">~Upland Sandpiper in the black dirt, 08\/10\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got lucky and found an UPLAND SANDPIPER in the Black Dirt Region this morning. Unfortunately, the bird was absolutely miles out in a field, so pics were very tough (click here to see what an Uppy actually looks like). The bird was jumpy, and I felt like at any moment it might come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UPLAND SANDPIPER, 08\/10\/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":[6,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3J5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","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=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14331,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}