{"id":6203,"date":"2016-08-16T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2016-08-16T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T00:53:35","slug":"orange-county-black-tern-81616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Black Tern, 8\/16\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6204\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=6204\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6204\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4457-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4457-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4457-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4457-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4457.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~BLACK TERN in flight at Citgo Pond, 8\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, so I guess I can keep calling the blog Orange Birding. This evening I just wanted to make a quick stop at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary&#8217;s Citgo Pond to check the water levels, because when I was there on Friday the levels were too high and there were no shorebirds present. Well, the water levels were still high and there were still no shorebirds, but I found a welcome surprise: a BLACK TERN! When I arrived the bird was perched on the ground, but it took flight not long after I got on the bird and never set down again. The bird flew around the pond, hunting continuously and splashing into the water from time to time. I put the word out and John Haas, Karen Miller, and Diane Bliss were all able to run for the bird. Bad weather was moving in quickly, so we ended up having to hustle out of there to beat storms. It was a nice looking bird and we got\u00a0good, if slightly\u00a0distant views &#8211; all my pics are cropped within an inch of their lives. This is my 193rd species\u00a0for Orange County this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6205\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=6205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6205\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4495-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4495-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4495-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4495-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4495.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~BLTE, wings down at Citgo Pond, 8\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6206\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=6206\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6206\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4629.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Black Tern right after splash down on the water. Citgo Pond, 8\/16\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I guess I can keep calling the blog Orange Birding. This evening I just wanted to make a quick stop at 6 1\/2 Station Road Sanctuary&#8217;s Citgo Pond to check the water levels, because when I was there on Friday the levels were too high and there were no shorebirds present. Well, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Black Tern, 8\/16\/16&#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":[11,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-612sanct","category-orangecounty","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1C3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","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=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}