{"id":3494,"date":"2014-11-16T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:55:05","slug":"black-dirt-brant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Black Dirt Brant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A single Brant, among a flock of Canada Geese, Black Dirt Region, 11\/16\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUICK POST:<\/strong> \u00a0I took a driving tour of the Black Dirt Region this morning to see what was going on. It was an uneventful morning;\u00a0I\u00a0had relatively few species (25 in the black dirt), and most were expected. American Pipits are still present in decent numbers, I saw several smaller flocks in various locations. I had many Horned Larks for the day, but never got any good looks at some of the larger groups to sift through them for longspurs. I did have a couple of interesting birds\u00a0– there was a single Snow Goose way out in a field with about a dozen Canada Geese on Celery Avenue. The highlight of the morning for me was locating a BRANT<\/strong> among a group of approximately 100 Canada Geese on Missionland Road. From what I read in the Crossley Guide, this is a juvenile because of the white fringes to the coverts and the lack of a white necklace, which will grow in through the fall. The light\u00a0did not lend itself to good photography, but here are some shots from the morning:<\/p>\n

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I enjoy seeing a Great Blue Heron in the black dirt. This one is peering over an embankment. Missionland Road, 11\/16\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crows were numerous and seemed to be at every turn this morning. Black Dirt Region, 11\/16\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s one more of the Brant. Missionland Road, 11\/16\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Downy Woodpecker on Celery Avenue, 11\/16\/14.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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QUICK POST: \u00a0I took a driving tour of the Black Dirt Region this morning to see what was going on. It was an uneventful morning;\u00a0I\u00a0had relatively few species (25 in the black dirt), and most were expected. American Pipits are still present in decent numbers, I saw several smaller flocks in various locations. I had … Continue reading “Black Dirt Brant”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Um","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}