{"id":8392,"date":"2018-08-11T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2018-08-12T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T10:39:11","slug":"decent-oc-shorebirding-08-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8392","title":{"rendered":"Decent OC Shorebirding, 08\/11\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Semipalmated Plover at Skinner Lane, 08\/11\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got out a little later than normal (for me on a Saturday morning). With the rainy weather, I decided to check the Black Dirt Region for shorebirds. My expectations were relatively low, so I was pleasantly surprised to locate 6 different species of shorebirds: Killdeer, Least Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plovers, and my best shorebird of the day – an early BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. My two other highlights from the day occurred at Pine Island Turf Nursery, where I \u00a0had pair of SANDHILL CRANES fly over, and a distant CLIFF SWALLOW feeding on the ground in one of the fields. *Please remember that birding PI Turf Nursery is by permission only – stop at the office to ask if it’s okay.* All\u00a0in all, I enjoyed an unexpectedly good day of birding.<\/p>\n

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~BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER at Skinner Lane. For fall migration, this bird was the earliest on eBird, beating reports by myself and Karen Miller back in 2013 by two days.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This pair of SANDHILL CRANES seem to be making the rounds. This was a flyover at Pine Island Turf Nursery; the birds were heading north towards the black dirt..~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This juvenile bird was one of two Semipalmated Plovers \u00a0at Skinner Lane, 08\/11\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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~Tree Swallows perched out at the Pine Island Turf Nursery. I had four species of swallow (Tree, Barn, Bank, and CLIFF), as well as a single Chimney Swift, 08\/11\/18.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I got out a little later than normal (for me on a Saturday morning). With the rainy weather, I decided to check the Black Dirt Region for shorebirds. My expectations were relatively low, so I was pleasantly surprised to locate 6 different species of shorebirds: Killdeer, Least Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plovers, and … Continue reading “Decent OC Shorebirding, 08\/11\/18”<\/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-8392","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-2bm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","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=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}