{"id":1843,"date":"2013-09-30T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:50:46","slug":"stilt-sandpiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Stilt Sandpiper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1851\" alt=\"_MG_1651\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1651-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1651-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1651-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1651.jpg 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>I believe I had a Stilt Sandpiper out at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge between 5 and 6 o&#8217;clock this evening. I am feeling pretty good about this ID, but having only ever seen the bird once before, I am not totally convinced . If you have any thoughts on the identification of this bird please weigh in; you can make a comment here or email me at mattzeit@yahoo.com. Here are a few more photos:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1849\" alt=\"_MG_1669\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1669-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1669-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1669-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1669.jpg 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1844\" alt=\"_MG_1611\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1611-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1611-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1611-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1611.jpg 1615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1846\" alt=\"_MG_1615\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615-420x300.jpg 420w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1615.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1847\" alt=\"_MG_1608\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1608-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1608-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1608-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_1608.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I had a Stilt Sandpiper out at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge between 5 and 6 o&#8217;clock this evening. I am feeling pretty good about this ID, but having only ever seen the bird once before, I am not totally convinced . If you have any thoughts on the identification of this bird &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=1843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stilt Sandpiper?&#8221;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-tJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}