{"id":2002,"date":"2017-05-21T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:49:34","slug":"may-21-2017-still-birdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/may-21-2017-still-birdy\/","title":{"rendered":"May 21, 2017 &#8211; Still Birdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2003\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2003\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanderlings\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2003\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sanderlings.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanderlings (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I spent about 4.5 hours at Montrose this morning, May 21, and it was still birdy. My total for the morning was 84 species. A week ago White-crowned Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers formed the bulk of the migrant passerines. By contrast, I saw only two White-crowned Sparrows and no Yellow-rumped Warblers this morning. The dominant warblers today were Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Common Yellowthroat, and American Redstart. There were also decent numbers of Wilson&#8217;s and Canada Warblers. Thrush and sparrow numbers were way down from early last week as well.  My highlights include<\/p>\n<p>Least Bittern &#8211; 1 female. Thanks to the kind couple who pointed her out to me.<br \/>\nYellow-billed Cuckoo &#8211; 1<br \/>\nChimney Swift &#8211; ~300, swarming over the point<br \/>\nYellow-bellied Flycatcher &#8211; 4<br \/>\nAll 6 regularly occurring swallows<br \/>\n19 species of warblers, including Mourning, Connecticut, and 2 male Black-throated Blues<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37034362\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S37034362<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about 4.5 hours at Montrose this morning, May 21, and it was still birdy. My total for the morning was 84 species. A week ago White-crowned Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers formed the bulk of the migrant passerines. By contrast, I saw only two White-crowned Sparrows and no Yellow-rumped Warblers this morning. The dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[45,81,122,127,68,106,48],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-black-throated-blue-warbler","tag-connecticut-warbler","tag-cuckoos","tag-herons","tag-least-bittern","tag-warblers","tag-yellow-billed-cuckoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}