{"id":2326,"date":"2018-11-05T05:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T11:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:59:41","slug":"harlequin-duck-black-scoters-red-necked-grebe-piping-plover-and-bairds-sandpipers-november-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/harlequin-duck-black-scoters-red-necked-grebe-piping-plover-and-bairds-sandpipers-november-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin Duck, Black Scoters, Red-necked Grebe, Piping Plover, and Baird&#8217;s Sandpipers, November 4, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2097\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/bairds-sandpiper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2097\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/bairds-sandpiper.jpg\" alt=\"Baird's Sandpiper\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2097\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baird&#8217;s Sandpiper (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t even going to bird this morning (November 4) because of rain in the forecast, but when I looked out my window at 7:30 I saw no rain, so I grabbed my gear and headed over to Montrose. I tallied a whopping 20 species for my effort, unimpressive even by early November standards. But, BUT, 25% of that tally consisted of good birds &#8211; Harlequin Duck (off the end of the fishing pier, found by Krzysztof Kurlyowicz), Black Scoter (2 flybys, found by Steve Huggins), Red-necked Grebe (flyby), Piping Plover, and Baird&#8217;s Sandpiper. The Baird&#8217;s (2 juveniles) represent one of the latest records of this species for Montrose, continuing the trend for late birds started by the Piping Plover.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to go wrong in November.<\/p>\n<p>Link to my eBird checklist for the day below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S49669117\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S49669117<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t even going to bird this morning (November 4) because of rain in the forecast, but when I looked out my window at 7:30 I saw no rain, so I grabbed my gear and headed over to Montrose. I tallied a whopping 20 species for my effort, unimpressive even by early November standards. But, [&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":[40,151,32,117,37,36,39,103,116],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-bairds-sandpiper","tag-best-fall-migration-days","tag-black-scoter","tag-grebes","tag-harlequin-duck","tag-piping-plover","tag-red-necked-grebe","tag-shorebirds","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}