{"id":3314,"date":"2014-09-28T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2014-09-28T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:48:31","slug":"northern-flickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"Northern Flickers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only had time for a quick\u00a0stop by 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary on this Sunday evening. The place was loaded with birds, mostly American Robins, Blue Jays, European Starlings, and, to a lesser degree, Northern Flickers. It would be hard to put a number on the robins, starlings, and jays, but definitely close to 100 for the robins and starlings and over 50 for the jays. I had a much more modest number of flickers, but to me, 6 is still a decent number for Northern Flickers. All the birds were quite active, moving around a lot, feeding and a large group of\u00a0starlings were bathing just off the trail. The flickers were jumpy at first, but then seemed to get used to my presence and I got a few shots.<\/p>\n

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A female Northern Flicker takes a brief break from feeding. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 9\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A male Northern Flicker feeds in the grasses along the Heritage Trail at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 9\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other noteworthy observations:<\/strong> The only shorebirds present were several\u00a0Killdeer and what looked like one Least Sandpiper. Great Egrets are still present in numbers, with approximately 15 present tonight.<\/p>\n

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Self portrait with all my gear – taken with my iPhone. 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 9\/28\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only had time for a quick\u00a0stop by 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary on this Sunday evening. The place was loaded with birds, mostly American Robins, Blue Jays, European Starlings, and, to a lesser degree, Northern Flickers. It would be hard to put a number on the robins, starlings, and jays, but definitely close to … Continue reading “Northern Flickers”<\/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":[11,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}