{"id":15159,"date":"2026-08-30T19:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15159"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:30:52","slug":"sunday-shots-08-30-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15159","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 08\/30\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got out on Saturday morning and briefly on Sunday morning. My focus continues to be shorebirds, of course. Shorebirds continue to be relatively sparse in the black dirt, but I got lucky with a brief, distant look at an Upland Sandpiper on Saturday morning. While I was a happy to finally catch up with an Uppy, it was frustrating to have it fly less than 30 seconds later. A little bit later, I caught up with a Baird’s Sandpiper. Linda Scrima joined me, and we enjoyed nice, relatively close-up look at the bird. Then, on Sunday morning, I had a very distant look at a bird that I was pretty sure was a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, but the bird flew before I was able to be 100% on the ID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Baird’s Sandpiper in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/29\/26. I was disappointed in all my shots of this bird – the light was a little bit harsh and I think there was some heat shimmer. At least that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is likely the same bird I photographed last week. Semipalmated Plover in the black dirt, 08\/29\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Sandhill Cranes in the black dirt on 08\/29\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is not something you see every day. Osprey perched on a pole in the Black Dirt Region, 08\/29\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I got out on Saturday morning and briefly on Sunday morning. My focus continues to be shorebirds, of course. Shorebirds continue to be relatively sparse in the black dirt, but I got lucky with a brief, distant look at an Upland Sandpiper on Saturday morning. While I was a happy to finally catch up with … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 08\/30\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Wv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159","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=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}