{"id":14882,"date":"2026-05-10T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14882"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:00:56","slug":"sunday-shots-05-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=14882","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 05\/10\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had another fantastic weekend of birding. It’s actually hard to remember when I’ve had a more birdy weekend. I added 26 species to my Orange County 2026 year list; I’m including a screenshot from eBird with the new birds and their locations at the bottom of this post. Notable birds included White-winged Scoters – four of them at Wickham Lake this morning – a very nice find by Kyle Knapp. It’s the first time since 2022 that I had all three scoters in Orange County (Surf, Black, & White-winged). Also at Wickham Lake, I had my first Wilson’s Warbler in several years. It was a crafty little stinker, but I managed to get a couple shots to at least document it. Also at Wickham Lake, I had a Northern Waterthrush – that’s a bird that’s not a guarantee for me on any particular year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my shots from the week – I’m starting off with one of my favorite shots of the year so far – of a young Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region. I was out on Monday 5\/4\/26, hoping for Lapland Longspurs, and although didn’t have any luck in that regard, this bird was an excellent consolation prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~I love this bird and this shot. Young Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region, 05\/04\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Chestnut-sided Warbler at Middletown Reservoir Trails, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Veery at Middletown Reservoir Trails, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~White-winged Scoters at Wickham Lake, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Wilson’s Warbler at Wickham Lake, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This bird would not come out into the open. Wilson’s Warbler at Wickham Lake, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Brown Thrasher at Wickham Lake, 05\/10\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~It was a Brown Thrasher kind of weekend, this bird was at Laurel Grove Cemetery, 05\/09\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One more shot of the young Horned Lark in the black dirt on 05\/04\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had another fantastic weekend of birding. It’s actually hard to remember when I’ve had a more birdy weekend. I added 26 species to my Orange County 2026 year list; I’m including a screenshot from eBird with the new birds and their locations at the bottom of this post. Notable birds included White-winged Scoters – … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 05\/10\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3S2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882","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=14882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14895,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}