{"id":3921,"date":"2015-01-31T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2015-01-31T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:32:01","slug":"longspurs-and-larks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Longspurs and Larks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~A Lapland Longspur on Missionland Road, 1\/31\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I tried over the past couple of days to get some better shots of the Lapland Longspurs on Missionland Road. Yesterday the light was perfect and the birds were on the road but I had no luck with photos. . This afternoon the light was good, and although the birds did not come in as close as I would like, I did manage to get some better shots. I had 4 LALOs in a small flock of Horned Larks. Also present today was a nice flock of American Goldfinches, many Savannah Sparrows and American Tree Sparrows, and a single Song Sparrow. The Horned Lark photos were taken on Tuesday when I first saw the LALOs.<\/p>\n

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~A Horned Lark forages on the side of Missionland Road, 1\/27\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Two of the four Lapland Longspurs I saw today on Missionland Road, 1\/31\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~A Horned Lark leaps to presumably grab and pull down some seeds to eat. I noticed this week that while the larks use this technique, the Lapland Longspurs will actually perch to feed….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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…like this bird is doing here. Lapland Longspur on Missionland Road, 1\/31\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried over the past couple of days to get some better shots of the Lapland Longspurs on Missionland Road. Yesterday the light was perfect and the birds were on the road but I had no luck with photos. . This afternoon the light was good, and although the birds did not come in as … Continue reading “Longspurs and Larks”<\/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-3921","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-11f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","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=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}