{"id":1881,"date":"2016-09-17T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:31:32","slug":"nelsons-sparrows-september-17-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/nelsons-sparrows-september-17-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson&#8217;s Sparrows, September 17, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1882\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1882\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Black-bellied Plover\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1882\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/black-bellied-plover.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-bellied Plover (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Montrose was pretty good this morning, September 17. I ended up with 58 species in about 4 hours of birding the Point. Swainson&#8217;s Thrushes and Palm Warblers were the most obvious, but the 8 &#8211; 10 Nelson&#8217;s Sparrows were the highlight for me. All these birds were in the Dunes and most were in the western panne. These are the first Nelson&#8217;s Sparrows I&#8217;ve seen at Montrose this fall. When it rains it pours I guess. Other goodies include a flyover American Golden-Plover, Merlin, several Bobolinks, Dickcissel, Marsh Wren, and a variety of warblers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S31620618\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S31620618<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montrose was pretty good this morning, September 17. I ended up with 58 species in about 4 hours of birding the Point. Swainson&#8217;s Thrushes and Palm Warblers were the most obvious, but the 8 &#8211; 10 Nelson&#8217;s Sparrows were the highlight for me. All these birds were in the Dunes and most were in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[82,151,152,120,125,47,49,103,121],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-american-golden-plover","tag-best-fall-migration-days","tag-bobolink","tag-hawks","tag-icterids","tag-merlin","tag-nelsons-sparrow","tag-shorebirds","tag-sparrows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}