{"id":3161,"date":"2019-09-12T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2019-10-06T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:34:17","slug":"long-billed-dowitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/long-billed-dowitcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-billed Dowitcher, September 11, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/long-billed-dowitcher3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2157\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/long-billed-dowitcher3.jpg\" alt=\"Long-billed Dowitcher\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2157\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-billed Dowitcher (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I checked Montrose Beach on the evening of September 11 to see if any interesting shorebirds had come in. A cold front was forecast to pass the next morning and I know from experience that shorebirds often move ahead of cold fronts in the summer and fall. To my great surprise, a juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher flew in and landed in the fluddle on the public part of the beach. This is a very rare bird at Montrose\u2014in my 40 years of birding there I&#8217;ve only seen one (and this was the only record before the September 11 sighting). Hard to believe I know but we just don&#8217;t get them. More photos of the Long-billed Dowitcher are at my eBird checklist for the day, link below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S59698194\">September 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked Montrose Beach on the evening of September 11 to see if any interesting shorebirds had come in. A cold front was forecast to pass the next morning and I know from experience that shorebirds often move ahead of cold fronts in the summer and fall. To my great surprise, a juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[263,103],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","category-rare-birds","tag-long-billed-dowitcher","tag-shorebirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}