{"id":14796,"date":"2026-04-05T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:20:38","slug":"sunday-shots-04-05-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14796","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots 04\/05\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last weekend was a birding bust for me (hence no post), but things started to pick up on Thursday when I found a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at Wickham Lake. Other notable birds that evening included a Common Loon and a Horned Grebe. We hosted family for Easter, so although I got out both days for a little while, my birding time was a little bit limited this weekend. Common Loon was definitely the bird of the weekend for me – I had two early Saturday morning and then today, I had a total of (13) on four different lakes – Wickham (6x), Greenwood (5x), Walton (1x), and Round (1x). Also of note this morning was a Horned Grebe, a trio of Lesser Scaup, my first Northern Shovelers of the year, and a single Bonaparte’s Gull, all at Wickham Lake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Bonaparte’s Gull at Wickham Lake on 04\/05\/26.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Common Loons at Wickham Lake, 04\/05\/26.~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Crow in the black dirt last weekend, 03\/28\/26.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Tree Swallow on Wisner Road, 03\/28\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend was a birding bust for me (hence no post), but things started to pick up on Thursday when I found a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at Wickham Lake. Other notable birds that evening included a Common Loon and a Horned Grebe. We hosted family for Easter, so although I got out both days for a … Continue reading “Sunday Shots 04\/05\/26”<\/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":[36,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulls","category-orangecounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3QE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","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=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14802,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}