{"id":1938,"date":"2016-11-08T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:03:27","slug":"montrose-cattle-egret-and-franklins-gulls-november-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/montrose-cattle-egret-and-franklins-gulls-november-8-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Egret and Franklin&#8217;s Gulls, November 8, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montrose was surprisingly birdy this morning, November 8, with several unexpected finds. I ended up with 35 species in about 1.5 hours of birding, which isn&#8217;t too shabby considering the date. Best were a Cattle Egret and 5 Franklin&#8217;s Gulls. The egret was flying around the beach and Dunes early in the morning. I think it landed briefly on the beach, but was flying north over Lake Michigan the last time I saw it. Cattle Egret is an unusual bird for Montrose; we don&#8217;t see them every year. This has been a good fall for them in the upper Midwest, so maybe this sighting shouldn&#8217;t have been surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the 5 Franklin&#8217;s Gulls were at the west end of the beach early in the morning and were still there when I left. The other 2 were flybys. This hasn&#8217;t been a good fall for Franklin&#8217;s Gulls along the Lake Michigan lakefront, probably because we haven&#8217;t had many storms with strong west winds. Link to eBird checklist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S32431763\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S32431763<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montrose was surprisingly birdy this morning, November 8, with several unexpected finds. I ended up with 35 species in about 1.5 hours of birding, which isn&#8217;t too shabby considering the date. Best were a Cattle Egret and 5 Franklin&#8217;s Gulls. The egret was flying around the beach and Dunes early in the morning. I think [&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":[95,94,105,127,125,93],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-cattle-egret","tag-franklins-gull","tag-gulls","tag-herons","tag-icterids","tag-rusty-blackbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}