{"id":5301,"date":"2015-12-29T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2015-12-29T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:34:31","slug":"icy-black-dirt-birding-122915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"Icy Black Dirt Birding, 12\/29\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"~A<\/a>
~A Red-tailed Hawk takes flight off of an icy perch, Black Dirt Region, 12\/2915.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the overnight frozen mix that continued with a steady rain in the morning, I did not think I would get much birding in today, and I certainly was not optimistic about taking photos. Fortunately the roads were fine for driving, so I did a tour of the black dirt in my car. I ran into some good birds close enough to the road for pics, and the icy conditions made for what I think are some interesting photos. I had a total of 33 species for the day; I covered a large territory and I’ve included two species I picked up during a quick stop at Tomahawk Lake at the end of the outing (Common Merganser and N. Mockingbird). I’ve included my species list at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n

\"~Coopers<\/a>
~Cooper’s Hawk, Black Dirt Region, 12\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"~My<\/a>
~My latest favorite – American Tree Sparrow framed in icy branches. Black Dirt Region, 12\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"~Red-tailed<\/a>
~Red-tailed Hawk on an icy perch, Black Dirt Region 12\/29\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black Dirt Region and Tomahawk Lake, December 29, 2015:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada Goose
\nMute Swan
\nMallard
\nCommon Merganser
\nBlack Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nCooper\u2019s Hawk
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nAmerican Kestrel
\nAmerican Coot
\nRing-billed Gull
\nRock Pigeon
\nMourning Dove
\nRed-headed Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nHorned Lark
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nWhite-breasted Nuthatch
\nNorthern Mockingbird
\nEuropean Starling
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nSong Sparrow
\nWhite-crowned Sparrow
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nCommon Grackle
\nBlackbird sp.
\nAmerican Goldfinch
\nHouse Sparrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the overnight frozen mix that continued with a steady rain in the morning, I did not think I would get much birding in today, and I certainly was not optimistic about taking photos. Fortunately the roads were fine for driving, so I did a tour of the black dirt in my car. I ran … Continue reading “Icy Black Dirt Birding, 12\/29\/15”<\/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":[23,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1nv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","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=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}