{"id":3747,"date":"2020-09-05T17:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2020-09-05T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T22:54:30","slug":"september-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/september-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"September 5, 2020 &#8211; A Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2248\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/turkey-vulture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2248\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2248\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/turkey-vulture.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Vulture\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey Vulture (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today was the best day of the fall for me. I ended up with 53 species in about 3 hours of birding, with good numbers of passerines, especially warblers and <i>Catharus<\/i> thrushes. Highlights include Connecticut and 2 Golden-winged Warblers (10 warbler species total), Bobolink, Dickcissel, the continuing American Avocet, and a surprise Turkey Vulture. TVs aren&#8217;t rare at Montrose but we don&#8217;t see a lot of them. Shorebirds were skimpy, mainly because the fluddle has dried up. I also had impressive numbers of aerial insectivores, mostly Chimney Swifts and Barn Swallows, a few bonus Cliff Swallows, and what seemed like thousands of buzzing dragonflies. Link to my eBird checklist for the morning below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S73209578\">September 5, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the best day of the fall for me. I ended up with 53 species in about 3 hours of birding, with good numbers of passerines, especially warblers and Catharus thrushes. Highlights include Connecticut and 2 Golden-winged Warblers (10 warbler species total), Bobolink, Dickcissel, the continuing American Avocet, and a surprise Turkey Vulture. TVs [&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":[108,281,152,178,215,81,84,279,125,103,53,280],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-american-avocet","tag-barn-swallow","tag-bobolink","tag-chimney-swift","tag-cliff-swallow","tag-connecticut-warbler","tag-dickcissel","tag-golden-winged-warbler","tag-icterids","tag-shorebirds","tag-swallows","tag-turkey-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}