{"id":14368,"date":"2025-08-31T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:24:44","slug":"sunday-shots-08-31-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14368","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/31\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t get out all that much over the past couple of days, but when I did, I got lucky and made the best of it. On Saturday evening (I didn’t get out in the morning), I birded the black dirt and had some shorebird success. I had (9) distant American Golden Plovers at my first location. Then, on my way to my second location, I saw a Black Bear on the road! Ant then, at my second and final location, I had an additional (29) American Golden Plovers. They were doing their flocking, whipping around the black dirt thing, which is so enjoyable to watch and photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Golden-Plovers in the black dirt, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~AMGPs whipping around the Black Dirt Region, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~AMGP in the BDR, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the American Golden-Plovers in the Black Dirt Region on Saturday night, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~A Black Bear moseys down a dirt road in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I went to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary first thing. I got lucky with a distant Sora that kept coming out into the opening. I only had my 400mm lens, so I tried to document by digiscoping with my phone; here is the result. Good bird, terrible photo. I was pretty happy to see a Sora; it’s been several years I believe, since I last saw one. Afterwards, I headed up to Mount Peter to participate in the annual cleanup. Hawkwatch starts this week; I have to say I’m pretty excited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Digiscoped image of Sora at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08\/31\/25.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-tailed Deer fawn in the black dirt, 08\/30\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t get out all that much over the past couple of days, but when I did, I got lucky and made the best of it. On Saturday evening (I didn’t get out in the morning), I birded the black dirt and had some shorebird success. I had (9) distant American Golden Plovers at my … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/31\/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":[11,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3JK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","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=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}