{"id":8104,"date":"2018-04-30T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8104"},"modified":"2018-04-30T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T01:56:02","slug":"an-unexpectedly-nice-evening-04-30-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8104","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpectedly Nice Evening, 04\/30\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8105\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8105\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-NRWS-3-Edit.jpg 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~A Northern Rough-winged Swallow makes a pass at Wickham Lake, 04\/30\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Picture this. You spent the day working hard and you are exhausted. But now you are standing on the shore of Wickham Lake in a light rain, listening to a Common Loon perform its eerie call. Swallows buzz over the surface of the lake; you scan persistently and eventually identify 4 of the 5 expected species of swallow: Barn, Tree, Northern Rough-winged, and a beautiful single <strong>CLIFF SWALLOW<\/strong>. Your first Solitary Sandpiper of the year works the shore just to your left; a Yellow Warbler and an American Redstart (another FOY) call from the patch of woods near the parking area. And, just like that, \u00a0your Monday evening has clearly surpassed expectations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8106\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=8106\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8106\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/043018-SPSA-2-Edit.jpg 2045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~I did not imagine I would be photographing any shorebirds close up this evening. Spotted Sandpiper at Wickham Lake, 04\/30\/18.~\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this. You spent the day working hard and you are exhausted. But now you are standing on the shore of Wickham Lake in a light rain, listening to a Common Loon perform its eerie call. Swallows buzz over the surface of the lake; you scan persistently and eventually identify 4 of the 5 expected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Unexpectedly Nice Evening, 04\/30\/18&#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_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":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-26I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104","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=8104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}