{"id":14353,"date":"2025-08-23T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:25:09","slug":"upland-sandpiper-08-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14353","title":{"rendered":"Upland Sandpiper, 08\/23\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t get out this morning, so this evening I followed up on several reports of an UPLAND SANDPIPER from earlier in the day. I was hoping to get some better looks than I did a couple of weeks ago<\/a>. Well, mission accomplished! I got super lucky with an Upland Sandpiper very close to the road. The bird flushed from some longer grasses as I approached in my car. It posed for a short time right in front of me, and then worked its way along the side of a turf field. It was probably the best\/longest Uppy observation that I’ve had, and I was excited and thrilled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Upland Sandpiper in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Uppy in the black dirt, 08\/23\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Upland Sandpiper in the black dirt, 08\/23\/25.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t get out this morning, so this evening I followed up on several reports of an UPLAND SANDPIPER from earlier in the day. I was hoping to get some better looks than I did a couple of weeks ago. Well, mission accomplished! I got super lucky with an Upland Sandpiper very close to the … Continue reading “Upland Sandpiper, 08\/23\/25”<\/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":[23,6,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-rarities","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Jv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","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=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14358,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}