{"id":3210,"date":"2014-08-28T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:19:08","slug":"orange-county-american-golden-plovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"Orange County American Golden-Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"One<\/a>
One of nine American Golden-Plovers, Old Warren Sod Farm, 8\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I left work this afternoon with one objective: to scour southern Orange County until I found some new shorebirds. Well, I got lucky, and at my fourth stop, which was the Old Warren Sod Farm, where I located 9 American Golden Plovers. The birds were quite distant and I was struggling to ID them. My initial thought was that they were Black-bellied Plovers and \u00a0it wasn\u2019t until John Haas showed up and the birds took\u00a0flight that it became clear that they were AMGPs (no black wing-pits). The birds were quite restless and moved around quite a bit and luckily at one point they landed close enough to us for some photos. Linda Scrima also made it out a little later, and though the birds were a bit distant at that point, she got good looks in the scope.<\/p>\n

Other shorebirds present included: \u00a0Killdeer (100+), Least Sandpipers (2), Pectoral Sandpiper (1), and Lesser Yellowlegs (1).<\/p>\n

\"AGPL<\/a>
AMGP at Old Warren Sod Farm, 8\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Yellowlegs in some nice light. Old Warren Sod Farm, 8\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pectoral<\/a>
Pectoral Sandpiper at Old Warren Sod Farm, 8\/28\/14. Photo by John Haas. I had a camera meltdown when John located this Pectoral Sandpiper and was unable to get a shot.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Four<\/a>
Four of the nine AMGPs was the best I could do in one photo. Old Warren Sod Farm, 8\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left work this afternoon with one objective: to scour southern Orange County until I found some new shorebirds. Well, I got lucky, and at my fourth stop, which was the Old Warren Sod Farm, where I located 9 American Golden Plovers. The birds were quite distant and I was struggling to ID them. My … Continue reading “Orange County American Golden-Plovers”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","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-PM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","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=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}