{"id":14429,"date":"2025-10-12T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14429"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:57:05","slug":"sunday-shots-10-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14429","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 10\/12\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last weekend I was out of commission with some family in for a visit, but I was back at starting on Thursday after work, when I went to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, where I had my first Rusty Blackbirds of the fall. On Saturday morning I was up at Mount Peter Hawkwatch; it was not a productive day with very light winds from the east and only 13 migrating raptors before I wrapped it up at 2 pm when the rain started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning was a little more productive. While I didn’t have anything out-0f-the-ordinary, there were plenty of birds around to enjoy. Highlights for me included a large flock of American Pipits (which frustratingly stayed out of photo range), several large flocks of Canada Geese to sift through, my first Dark-eyed Juncos and White-crowned Sparrows of the year, and a Swainson’s Thrush at my last stop of the day – 6 1\/2 Station Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I was totally into watching these two Great Blue Herons do their dance at the viewing platform at Liberty Loop, 10\/12\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Always good to see this bird. Rusty Blackbird at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 10\/09\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~There are plenty of these dudes around right now. Yellow-rumped Warbler at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 10\/12\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I had a small flock of Horned Larks near the road. I wish the pipits had been as cooperative. Black dirt region, 10\/12\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Great Blue Heron at the Liberty Loop, 10\/12\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I believe this is a juvenile female Northern Pintail. 6 1\/2 Station Road, 10\/12\/25.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Last weekend I was out of commission with some family in for a visit, but I was back at starting on Thursday after work, when I went to 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, where I had my first Rusty Blackbirds of the fall. On Saturday morning I was up at Mount Peter Hawkwatch; it was … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 10\/12\/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":[11,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3KJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","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=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}