{"id":2930,"date":"2019-05-20T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2019-06-01T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:32:03","slug":"abbondanza-may-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/abbondanza-may-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbondanza!, May 19, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2121\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/least-bittern.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2121\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/least-bittern.jpg\" alt=\"Least Bittern\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2121\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Least Bittern (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Montrose was on fire with birds on May 19, hands down the best day of the spring.  I ended up with 107 species for the day, 103 in the morning and 4 more on a return visit in the afternoon and evening, my second best daily total ever there (over 130 species were reported to eBird for the day, which is about as well as we do). The Magic Hedge lived up to its name and was bursting with warblers, thrushes, vireos, and flycatchers. One of the highlights was a slightly out of place male Least Bittern in the peripheral plantings. We live for days like this. We suffer through Midwestern winters for experiences like this. My highlights include<\/p>\n<p>Piping Plover (2)<br \/>\nLesser Black-backed Gull (first cycle bird)<br \/>\nLeast Bittern<br \/>\nOlive-sided Flycatcher<br \/>\nPhiladelphia Vireo (4)<br \/>\nClay-colored Sparrow<br \/>\nNelson&#8217;s Sparrow<br \/>\nYellow-breasted Chat<br \/>\n24 species of warblers including Mourning, Connecticut, Black-throated Blue, and Hooded, plus gobs of Bay-breasted, Magnolias, and Blackpolls<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong> (morning visit)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56488818\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56488818<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong> (p.m. visit)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56512714\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56512714<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montrose was on fire with birds on May 19, hands down the best day of the spring. I ended up with 107 species for the day, 103 in the morning and 4 more on a return visit in the afternoon and evening, my second best daily total ever there (over 130 species were reported to [&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":[70,45,63,81,119,105,210,68,101,49,209,135,36,103,121,118,106,65],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-best-spring-migration-days","tag-black-throated-blue-warbler","tag-clay-colored-sparrow","tag-connecticut-warbler","tag-flycatchers","tag-gulls","tag-hooded-warbler","tag-least-bittern","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-nelsons-sparrow","tag-olive-sided-flycatcher","tag-philadelphia-vireo","tag-piping-plover","tag-shorebirds","tag-sparrows","tag-vireos","tag-warblers","tag-yellow-breasted-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}