{"id":15220,"date":"2026-09-20T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:21:50","slug":"sunday-shots-09-20-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=15220","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 09\/20\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I drove around the Black Dirt Region in the rain this morning. I was rewarded with my first decent look at the American Golden-Plovers that have been hanging around for a little while now. I also had a calling Black-bellied Plover; I heard it call, but I was unable to find the bird, so I’m assuming it was a flyover. It was my first BBPL of the year, so while it wasn’t a very rewarding experience, I was at least able to add it to my Orange County 2026 list (bird #196). Other than that, of note was a large number of sparrows around. They were predominantly Savannah Sparrows; my phone heard Lincoln’s a couple of times, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to locate any. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~American Golden-Plover with a worm in the black dirt, 09\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~American Golden-Plover in the Black Dirt Region, 09\/20\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~This is from last weekend – 3 of 4 Sandhill Cranes in the black dirt, 09\/13\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Cooper’s Hawk on a wire in the Black Dirt Region, 09\/12\/26.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I drove around the Black Dirt Region in the rain this morning. I was rewarded with my first decent look at the American Golden-Plovers that have been hanging around for a little while now. I also had a calling Black-bellied Plover; I heard it call, but I was unable to find the bird, so I’m … Continue reading “Sunday Shots, 09\/20\/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":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-shorebirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-3Xu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","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=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15228,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}