{"id":3476,"date":"2014-11-09T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2014-11-09T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:51:51","slug":"black-dirt-110914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Black Dirt, 11\/09\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3478\" style=\"width: 1912px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3478\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"1912\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535.jpg 1912w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6535-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male Horned Lark in the Black Dirt Region, 11\/09\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Quick Post:<\/strong> I tooled around the Black Dirt Region for a little while this morning, mostly in hopes of relocating a Lapland Longspur that had been reported from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mearnsbirdclub.org\/Mearns_Bird_Club\/Welcome.html\">Mearns Bird Club<\/a> field trip the day before. I dipped on the longspur, but there were plenty of Horned Larks and American Pipits to sift through.\u00a0The birds were in loose flocks and\u00a0most were quite distant, but I did have a few closer birds which allowed for some photos. I really enjoy seeing and photographing these birds, and although it didn&#8217;t happen for me today, it&#8217;s really exciting because there is always the possibility of finding Lapland Longspurs and Snow Buntings among them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3479\" style=\"width: 1181px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3479\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6548.jpg\" alt=\"An American Pipit stands at attention, Black Dirt Region, Orange County NY, 11\/09\/14. \" width=\"1181\" height=\"1654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6548.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6548-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6548-731x1024.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American Pipit stands at attention, Black Dirt Region, Orange County NY, 11\/09\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3477\" style=\"width: 1916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3477\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"1916\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521.jpg 1916w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_6521-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female Horned Lark in the Black Dirt, 11\/09\/14.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Post: I tooled around the Black Dirt Region for a little while this morning, mostly in hopes of relocating a Lapland Longspur that had been reported from the Mearns Bird Club field trip the day before. I dipped on the longspur, but there were plenty of Horned Larks and American Pipits to sift through.\u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Dirt, 11\/09\/14&#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":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":[23,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-U4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}