{"id":9966,"date":"2020-04-11T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2020-04-11T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:50:28","slug":"saturday-04-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=9966","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 04\/11\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a beautiful morning to get out birding: cool, crisp, and sunny. I had an enjoyable and productive morning. I started out at Wickham Lake, where the light was nice and I enjoyed photographing the many Tree Swallows present, as well as a pair of Downy Woodpeckers. The lake was quiet with hardly any waterfowl present; my best bird was a single Ruddy Duck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Tree Swallow at Wickham Lake, 04\/11\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also took a 4 mile hike, doing the entire loop at Doris Duke Trail<\/a>. It was my first time there, it was a nice hike and pretty darn birdy. I added 4 year birds: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Palm Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, and Hermit Thrush. I made some stops at some of the southern Orange County lakes on my way home, but I guess it just wasn’t a good day for waterfowl, as I had nothing noteworthy. I have to say, this morning was some enjoyable birding, the best outing I’ve had in some time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~This is a bird I always enjoy seeing – Lousiana Waterthrush at Doris Duke Trail, 04\/11\/20.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~I enjoyed watching a photographing a pair of Downy Woodpeckers for a good while at Wickham Lake, 04\/11\/20.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~One of my highlights of the morning – Hermit Thrush at Doris Duke Trail, 04\/11\/20.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Chipping Sparrow at Wickham Lake. This is from yesterday evening, 04\/10\/20.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful morning to get out birding: cool, crisp, and sunny. I had an enjoyable and productive morning. I started out at Wickham Lake, where the light was nice and I enjoyed photographing the many Tree Swallows present, as well as a pair of Downy Woodpeckers. The lake was quiet with hardly any … Continue reading “Saturday, 04\/11\/20”<\/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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2AK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","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=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}