{"id":5455,"date":"2016-01-16T18:58:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T23:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2016-01-16T18:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T23:58:48","slug":"black-dirt-birding-11616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"Black Dirt Birding, 1\/16\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~An American Kestrel that actually did not flush as I drove by!\u00a0A birding miracle in the Black Dirt Region, 1\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I birded the Black Dirt Region by car this morning and covered a lot of ground. I wanted to first check to see if the Snowy Owl continued – I was unable to relocate the bird and did not hear of anyone relocating the bird all day. My second goal of the day was to sort through some of the many Canada Geese in the area, looking for rarities. I really wanted to locate a Cackling Goose, especially since John Haas<\/a> had reported 2 from the day before.\u00a0I located two decent candidates; one flew before I got any photos or could be sure of the ID. When I located the second candidate, Linda Scrima joined me and although we got some decent looks and photos of the bird, we left unsure of the ID. I kept going back and forth with this bird, sometimes it looked really good for a Cackling and other times not so good. Being this unsure, I will leave this\u00a0bird unidentified, but I’ve included a photo of the bird in this post in case anyone would like to weigh in.\u00a0The only other notable geese from the day were 5 Snow Geese<\/strong>.\u00a0My final goal was to try to add some birds to my Orange County list and I increased it by 9 birds. I had 30 birds on my species list, which I’ve included at the bottom of this post. Highlights of the day for me included 2 Rough-legged Hawks<\/strong> and 2 American Kestrels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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~A male Northern Harrier, the Gray Ghost in flight in the black dirt. This was taken earlier in the week, 1\/13\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Three of the 5 Snow Geese I had in the black dirt today, 1\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Same Gray Ghost as above, perched on the ground. Black Dirt Region, 1\/13\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~American Kestrel taking flight, Black Dirt Region, 1\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This was Cackling Goose Candidate #2… Any thoughts? ~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Snow Goose
\nCanada Goose
\nMallard
\nRing-necked Pheasant
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nTurkey Vulture
\nNorthern Harrier
\nRed-shouldered Hawk
\nRed-tailed Hawk
\nRough-legged Hawk
\nRing-billed Gull
\nRock Pigeon
\nMourning Dove
\nShort-eared Owl
\nRed-bellied Woodpecker
\nDowny Woodpecker
\nAmerican Kestrel
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nHorned Lark
\nBlack-capped Chickadee
\nTufted Titmouse
\nNorthern Mockingbird
\nEuropean Starling
\nAmerican Tree Sparrow
\nDark-eyed Junco
\nWhite-crowned Sparrow
\nWhite-throated Sparrow
\nNorthern Cardinal
\nAmerican Goldfinch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I birded the Black Dirt Region by car this morning and covered a lot of ground. I wanted to first check to see if the Snowy Owl continued – I was unable to relocate the bird and did not hear of anyone relocating the bird all day. My second goal of the day was … Continue reading “Black Dirt Birding, 1\/16\/16”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","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-1pZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","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=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}