{"id":9122,"date":"2019-04-14T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2019-04-14T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:49:43","slug":"excellent-morning-04-14-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9122","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Morning, 04\/14\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Birding bud Bruce Nott invited me to join him out at Stewart State Forrest&#8217;s Route 207 Marsh this morning. We met up at the marsh just after 7:00 am and we had a great morning. My number one goal was to see some OC shorebirds, and we did pretty well with 5 species:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lesser Yellowlegs (3)<\/li><li>Greater Yellowlegs (1)<\/li><li>Wilson&#8217;s Snipe (25)<\/li><li>Killdeer (6)<\/li><li>Solitary Sandpiper (4)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-EAPH-Edit.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~Eastern Phoebe at the 207 Marsh, 04\/14\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpectedly, at least to me, we also did pretty well with warblers, with four species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Yellow-rumped Warbler (4)<\/li><li>Palm Warbler (2)<\/li><li>Pine Warbler (2)<\/li><li>Louisiana Waterthrush(1)<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PAWA-2-Edit.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~A nice look at one of the 2 Palm Warblers we had today at the 207 Marsh, 04\/14\/19.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was super birding all morning; the birds were abundant and active, Bruce is just awesome to hang out with, and in the end we had a total 43 species. I added 10 Orange County year birds, which is nice too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blue-winged Teal<\/li><li>Barn Swallow<\/li><li>Lesser Yellowlegs<\/li><li>Greater Yellowlegs<\/li><li>Solitary Sandpiper<\/li><li>RUSTY BLACKBIRD<\/li><li>Pine Warbler<\/li><li>Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/li><li>Louisiana Waterthrush<\/li><li>Palm Warbler<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-PIWA.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~Lousy pic, but I was happy to see this Pine Warbler. Route 207 Marsh, 04\/14\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-WODU-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~Wood Duck on a nice perch at the 207 Marsh, 04\/14\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419-LEYE.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~Documentary shot of a distant Lesser Yellowlegs. All the shorebirds were distant, but still so good to see them. 207 Marsh, 04\/14\/19.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birding bud Bruce Nott invited me to join him out at Stewart State Forrest&#8217;s Route 207 Marsh this morning. We met up at the marsh just after 7:00 am and we had a great morning. My number one goal was to see some OC shorebirds, and we did pretty well with 5 species: Lesser Yellowlegs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excellent Morning, 04\/14\/19&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2n8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122","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=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}